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UC and HCAI warn residency funding is strained as Proposition 56 revenues fall
Summary
University of California and HCAI officials told lawmakers that state graduate medical education funding has expanded residency positions but funding sources are shrinking, leaving existing residency programs at risk and impeding new program development in shortage areas.
University of California and Department of Health Care Access and Information leaders briefed the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health about California’s physician workforce programs and the financial pressures facing graduate medical education (GME).
Dina McCrae, associate vice president for academic health sciences at the University of California Office of the President, said California has expanded residency capacity in recent years — noting roughly a 60 percent increase in residents in the past decade and more than 1,300 CalMedforce positions supported by Proposition 56 and related state funds since 2018. "Since 2018, CalMedForce has awarded more than $255,000,000 to support 1,366 resident positions in 180 residency programs," McCrae said.
But McCrae and HCAI staff warned funds are tightening. McCrae told the committee…
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