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Hennepin Healthcare highlights family medicine residency’s role training physicians for Minnesota primary‑care needs
Summary
Hennepin Healthcare officials told the House committee that its long‑running family medicine residency (33 residents, 11 per year) provides broad clinical exposure, has a high board‑pass rate and that continued state support helps cover teaching costs that Medicare/CMS funding does not fully offset.
Dr. Megan Walsh, chief academic and research officer at Hennepin Healthcare, told the House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee that the Hennepin family medicine residency trains physicians who often remain in Minnesota primary care and that the program requires state support because clinical revenue and CMS payments do not fully cover educational costs.
Walsh described the residency as one of the nation’s older family medicine programs and said Hennepin’s program places 11…
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