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One of the roadblocks I forgot to mention is the federal government, which effectively sets limits on the number of new residents that are trained each year: ht
by maxharris 10y ago
One of the roadblocks I forgot to mention is the federal government, which effectively sets limits on the number of new residents that are trained each year: https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/gme/71178/gme_gme0012.html https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/gme/71178/gme_gme0012.html
(Not enough people know this, because there would be real outrage if they did.)
- maxerickson 10y agoThose are funding caps, which aren't quite the same as limits. I'm not aware that there is anything stopping private hospitals funding residency slots. Hospital systems with hundreds of millions of dollars of profit could easily afford to fund a few residencies. Medicare is probably a pretty smart and fair place to pull the funding from (it's a broad based tax and key patient focused component of the US healthcare system), but it certainly isn't the only entity with money.