Financing graduate medical education: a federal health policy perspective
Whitcomb, M.E.
Journal of Medical Practice Management Mpm 3(3): 212-216
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 8755-0229 PMID: 10302255 Document Number: 317376
Since 1984, the federal government has incrementally linked funding of Medicare to considerations of medical manpower supply, training, and specialization. To beneficially implement such policy, the government should: reaffirm that general medical education costs are an integral part of care costs in teaching hospitals; discontinue federal support of medical education in foreign schools with unacceptable standards; create programs to allow fully trained physicians to replace trainees in the provision of services to inner city poor; and require teaching hospitals to affiliate with medical schools.