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Hennepin Healthcare warns loss of state family medicine residency appropriation would cut training slots
Summary
Hennepin Healthcare officials told the House Higher Education committee that a state appropriation supporting family medicine residency faculty covers teaching and accreditation costs and that losing $645,000 annually would force elimination of nearly four residency slots per year.
Hennepin Healthcare officials told the House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee that the state appropriation supporting family medicine residency training funds faculty teaching and accreditation work, and that eliminating the funding would force the program to drop several residency slots.
Dr. Megan Walsh, chief academic and research officer at Hennepin Healthcare, and Charles Esler, vice president of finance, presented the program’s operating costs and said the Office of Higher Education appropriation—$645,000 annually, $1.29 million per biennium—directly pays faculty who supervise residents at the bedside and meet accreditation requirements.
“The appropriation from the Office of Higher…
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