PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE: Expansion of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program

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Nearly half of medical students specializing in pediatrics in the United States received some training at the 58 hospitals with funding from the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program. A 2014 change to the program expanded the number of hospitals eligible to participate.

We looked at the four hospitals that became eligible and found that they individually received about $320,000 to $1.6 million in 2016 from the program. The hospitals use the program to address gaps in medical care, including by training residents in medical specialties with physician shortages, such as child and adolescent psychiatry.

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Source: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-66R