Veterans Affairs Graduate Medical Education Expansion Addresses U.S. Physician Workforce Needs.

ABSTRACT: The United States has a well-trained, highly specialized physician workforce yet continues to have care gaps across the nation. Deficiencies in primary care and mental health specialties are most frequently cited, though critical shortages in multiple disciplines exist, particularly in rural areas. Sponsoring institutions of physician graduate medical education (GME) have created rural residency tracks with modest federal funding and minimal incentives, though efforts targeting shortages in these specialties and geographic locations have been limited. In response to access problems in the Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the second largest federal funder of GME with the most expansive clinical education platform, Congress passed the Veterans Access, Choi

SUBMITTER: Klink KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9311468 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature