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Exploring Opportunities to Improve Patient Access to Care through Strategic Changes to Graduate Medical Education: A Workshop

A small group of medical student residents gather around a boardroom table to to meet with their medical team lead. They each have cases out on front of them as they work together collaboratively to discuss each one. They are each dressed professionally in medical scrubs and are listening attentively to the doctor leading the meeting at the head of the table.

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This hybrid workshop gathers stakeholders to explore how changes in Graduate Medical Education (GME)—including policy reforms, improved data collection, and outcome reporting—can better meet the health needs of the nation (with an emphasis on primary care). The event responds to longstanding issues in the GME system: outdated funding models, insufficient outcome measurement, misaligned financial incentives, and limited workforce planning, contributing to physician shortages and maldistribution. Growing national interest—especially among primary care advocates— underscores the need for better data, accountability, and evidence-based approaches in federal and state GME policies. Workshop agenda and background paper available.

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Exploring Opportunities to Improve Patient Access to Care through Strategic Changes to Graduate Medical Education: A Workshop

  • March 24 - 25, 2026
  • Workshop
  • Upcoming

This National Academies hybrid workshop gathers stakeholders to explore how changes in Graduate Medical Education (GME)—including policy reforms, improved data collection, and outcome reporting—can en...

A small group of medical student residents gather around a boardroom table to to meet with their medical team lead. They each have cases out on front of them as they work together collaboratively to discuss each one. They are each dressed professionally in medical scrubs and are listening attentively to the doctor leading the meeting at the head of the table.
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