Wednesday, September 11, 2013

COGME Recommends Increase in GME Funding for General Surgery


COGME Recommends Increase in GME Funding for General Surgery

The Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) recently released its 21st report, “Improving Value in Graduate Medical Education.” In the report, COGME recommends increasing Graduate Medical Education (GME) funding for high-priority specialties, including general surgery, family medicine, geriatrics, general internal medicine, certain pediatric subspecialties, and psychiatry.

The report acknowledges that GME is facing many challenges, such as poor geographic distribution of physicians in relation to population needs and increasing specialization, and that primary care remains under-resourced. According to the report, part of the problem is that many teaching hospitals have yet to recognize the need for greater emphasis on primary care training, and their curriculum is often inadequate in terms of outcomes for groups of individuals, care coordination, team-based practice, and other aspects of new systems of care.
To address these and other challenges, COGME calls for increasing partnerships between training programs, teaching hospitals, accreditation organizations, state and federal governments, and other stakeholders to accelerate change. COGME assumes improving value in GME funding means better targeting of public GME money and more effective training models.
Authorized by Congress, COGME provides ongoing assessments of physician workforce trends, training issues, and financing policies and recommends appropriate federal and private sector efforts to address identified needs. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) continues to advocate for increased GME funding. View information on recent ACS advocacy efforts related to GME.

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