title: Funding for graduate medical education.
abstract: The education of radiology residents and fellows is a vitally important but costly process. This paper reviews the most common methods of funding graduate medical education. The majority of graduate medical education in the United States is funded by Medicare, but there are caps on the number of trainees allowed, and the government is cutting payments. Academic medicine, particularly academic radiology, is at a point of crisis today if new methods to provide additional support are not found.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. vjackso@iupui.edu
authors.forename: Valerie P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000191:economics*; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D013337:Students, Medical; D014481:United States