Graduate medical education and Medicare: understanding the issues Graduate medical education and Medicare: understanding the issues

Collection: Health Policy and Services Research Series Title(s): Insight on the issues (AARP Public Policy Institute) Contributor(s): Nonnemaker, Lynn. AARP (Organization) Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization)) Publication: Washington, D.C. : AARP Public Policy Institute, c2010 Language(s): English Format: Text Subject(s): Education, Medical, Graduate -- economics Internship and Residency -- economics Medicare -- economics Physicians -- supply & distribution Training Support -- economics United States Genre(s): Technical Report Abstract: This Insight on the Issues examines the role of Medicare in financing residency training for physicians-in-training at teaching hospitals. It presents information on funding, residency population, and teaching hospital numbers. It also discusses issues facing policymakers concerned about the relationship between Medicare and the physician workforce, including the role that Medicare should play in training residents, the extent to which Medicare funding should be used as a tool to shape the physician workforce, and what kinds of training Medicare should support. Copyright: Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information) Extent: 7 p. Illustrations: Illustrations NLM Unique ID: 101542254 (See catalog record) Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101542254