Advocacy
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
When Congress created the Medicare program in 1965, it established a Medicare GME funding stream to support the training of our nation’s medical residents to provide and care to Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare remains the single largest payer of graduate medical education (GME)—$9.5 billion in 2009.
GME remains one of the most important issues facing academic family medicine today. Innovation is needed to modernize the program to produce the primary care workforce necessary to care for the nation in today’s health care system.
Our key GME issue issue:
Graduate Medical Education Modernization Pilot
Committees and Agencies of Jurisdiction
House Committee on Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committee
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Current Landscape
CAFM is spreading the word about our policy on Capitol Hill and meeting with members of the new Congress
