September 21, 2001

COGME Works on Final Report

The Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) devoted a full day to a discussion of its forthcoming final report when it met Sept. 10-11 in Washington, D.C. The draft report recounts Council recommendations on issues that include:

• The size and mix of the physician workforce;
• The distribution of the physician workforce;
• Minority representation in the physician workforce;
• International medical graduates in the physician workforce;
• Women in medicine;
• Interdisciplinary health care professionals;
• Quality of graduate medical education; and
• Financing graduate medical education.

In its final form, the report will comment on the role COGME has played in raising issues and influencing both government policy and actions by private organizations.

The report will suggest at least four key areas for future work by the Council if its legislative authorization is renewed when it expires in September 2002:

• The health care workforce, including revisiting the 110, 50-50 recommendation;
• Diversity and cultural competency in the workforce;
• Collaborative models to achieve quality in health care; and
• GME Financing.

The final report will be completed early in 2002.

Information: Sunny Yoder, AAMC Office of Governmental Relations, 202-828-0497.