IOM releases report on graduate medical education

• Main Authors: Robbins RA, Singarajah CU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arizona Thoracic Society 2014-08-01
• Series: Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
• Subjects: IOM; Institute of Medicine; Donald Berwick; politics; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Graduate Medical Education; residency; primary care; government control; metrics
• Online Access: http://www.swjpcc.com/editorial/2014/8/12/iom-releases-report-on-graduate-medical-education.html

No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. On July 29 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report on graduate medical education (GME) (1). This is the residency training that doctors complete after finishing medical school. This training is funded by about $15 billion annually from the Federal government with most of the monies coming from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The report calls for an end to providing the money directly to the teaching hospitals and to dramatically alter the way the funds are paid. Instead payments would be made to community clinics phased in over about 10 years. To administer the program, the report recommends the formation of two committees: 1. A GME Policy Council in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health; and 2. A GME Center within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to manage the operational aspects of GME CMS funding. The later committee ...