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Learn about policy issues important to medical schools and teaching hospitals, with Executive Vice President Atul Grover, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
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Resident physicians have graduated from medical school and typically spend three to seven years in graduate medical education (GME) training at teaching hospitals and their associated ambulatory settings. AAMC member teaching hospitals educate the next generation of physicians through excellent and essential clinical training.
The Medicare program is committed to paying its share of the costs of educating residents and provides special payments, called direct graduate medical education (DGME) payments, to hospitals to cover costs directly related to educating residents.
The Medicare program also provides special patient care payments to teaching hospitals, referred to as indirect medical education (IME) payments, to account for the higher costs of the complex patients teaching hospitals treat and the highly specialized care they provide.
Cuts to GME funding would jeopardize the ability of medical schools and teaching hospitals to train physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, as well as limit critical services to the community.
USCIS Resumes H-1B Premium Processing for Conrad 30 Physicians
June 30, 2017
—The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) June 26 resumed H-1B premium processing for physicians entering the Conrad 30 program.
USCIS Resumes H-1B Premium Processing for Conrad 30 Physicians
GAO Releases Report on Physician Workforce
June 30, 2017
—The Government Accountability Office (GAO) June 26 released its report, “Physician Workforce: Locations and Types of Graduate Training Were Largely Unchanged, and Federal Efforts May Not Be Sufficient to Meet Needs.”
AAMC, Academic Medicine Caucus Host Hill Briefing on VA Affiliations
June 23, 2017
On behalf of the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus (CAMC), the AAMC hosted a June 20 congressional briefing titled VA and Academic Medicine: Partnering for Veterans’ Health. The briefing highlighted the role of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) affiliated medical schools and teaching hospitals across their three shared missions of patient care, education, and research, as well as how these partnerships ultimately benefit veterans and all Americans.
AAMC, Academic Medicine Caucus Host Hill Briefing on VA Affiliations
AAMC Commends Reps. Roe and Castor for Re-launching the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus
May 12, 2017
AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, MD, May 11 applauded Reps. Phil Roe, MD, (R-Tenn.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) for re-launching the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus (CAMC) and serving as its co-chairs.
AAMC Commends Reps. Roe and Castor for Re-launching the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus
Bipartisan GME Expansion Legislation Reintroduced in House
May 5, 2017
Representatives Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Ryan Costello (R-Pa.) May 1 introduced the “Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017” (H.R. 2267), legislation aimed at quelling the looming physician shortage by increasing the number of Medicare-supported graduate medical education (GME) residency positions.
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Preserving GME Funding
Whether it’s an emergency or a serious illness requiring complex care, when life is on the line you can count on America’s teaching hospitals. But can they count on the funding they need from Congress?
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Testimony and Correspondence
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DACA Health Professions Letter Urging Congressional Action
September 14, 2017
The AAMC joined over 70 national health organizations in a letter to congressional leadership urging them to ensure that all members of the health care workforce with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status are able to continue their employment, education, training, and research, with passage of a permanent legislative remedy, such as the bipartisan, bicameral Dream Act of 2017 (S. 1615, H.R. 3440).
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Community Letter to Congress on Student Aid, Research
June 7, 2017
Community letter, organized by the American Council on Education (ACE), asking Congress to maintain the “historic commitment” to student financial aid and scientific research as they begin work on the FY 2018 spending bill.
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Community Letter to Rep. Judy Chu in Support of the POST GRAD Act
June 1, 2017
Community sign on letter to Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), organized by the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP), expressing support for HR 2526, the Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt Act or POST GRAD Act.