The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith proposes a pathway to redirect the medical-industrial complex "back to a more humanistic orientation," which involves commissioning a "New Flexner Report" and federally-led reforms to medical education to require schools to fully embrace the biopsychosocial model. This is not to say that this book is not worth reading - far from it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. We talk about: .

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

We advocated for the Resident Education Deferred Interest (REDI) Act (HR 1202 / S794). This bill would preclude the government from charging interest on their loans during when they are unable to afford payments on the principal. Read more in the AAFP’s statement.

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