title: Financing graduate medical education: a federal health policy perspective.
abstract: Since 1984, the federal government has incrementally linked funding of Medicare to considerations of medical manpower supply, training, and specialization. To beneficially implement such policy, the government should: reaffirm that general medical education costs are an integral part of care costs in teaching hospitals; discontinue federal support of medical education in foreign schools with unacceptable standards; create programs to allow fully trained physicians to replace trainees in the provision of services to inner city poor; and require teaching hospitals to affiliate with medical schools.
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000191:economics*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution; D014146:Training Support / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States