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House Ways and Means hearing spotlights rural residency bottlenecks and GME funding reforms
Summary
Witnesses at a House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing urged Congress to expand and modernize Graduate Medical Education to grow physicians in rural and underserved areas, citing startup costs, outdated Medicare formulas, and the RRPD program's startup successes.
At a House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing, members and witnesses debated reforms to graduate medical education (GME) aimed at expanding residency training in rural and underserved communities.
Dr. Emily Hawes, a rural clinical pharmacist and professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, told the subcommittee that rural training “doubles the probability they will practice in rural communities” and highlighted the HRSA-administered rural residency planning and development program (RRPD) as a critical seed funder that helped create roughly 63–66 new rural residency programs and about 800 accredited resident positions.
Jason Shenafield, president and CEO of Phelps…
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