85.959             Increasing Funding for Graduate Medical Education

85.959             Increasing Funding for Graduate Medical Education: 

MSSNY will:

1. encourage both public and private payers to contribute to Graduate Medical Education (GME) funding through for example, expansion of government grant opportunities similar to the Primary Care Residency Expansion Program;
2. encourage adjusting GME funding to account for the need of an expanded workforce;
3. advocate for transparency in the funding of residency programs and for how those programs in turn use allotted funding;
4. urge the American Medical Association to work toward the removal of caps on the number of Medicare funded residency programs and physicians therein. (HOD 2011-166; Reaffirmed HOD 2021)