Insurance Companies’ Participation in Funding Graduate Medical Education to Solve Physician Shortage

Year: 2008

Resolution Number: 8

Action Taken: Approved

Status:

Author(s): Venkat K. Rao, MD

Sponsor: Michael L. Gambel, MD

On behalf of: International MedicalGraduates Section

Committee: E (Science & Education Affairs)

Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS seek legislation to require all health insurance companies licensed in Michigan to contribute to the cost of graduate medical education in Michigan sufficient to allow for a 20 percent expansion in residency slots in the state of Michigan.

Fiscal Note: NULL

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