Washington E-Newsletter

Neurosurgery Recommends GME Policy Options to Senate

Following the Bipartisan Medicare Graduate Medical Education (GME) Working Group’s draft policy proposal outline and questions for consideration, the AANS and the CNS joined the Alliance of Specialty Medicine and the Graduate Medical Education Advocacy Coalition (GMEAC) in sending letters to Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Bill Cassidy, MD, (R-La.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). The letters provide GME policy recommendations to address physician workforce shortages.

Click here to read the Alliance of Specialty Medicine letter and here to read the GMEAC letter.