Rework of med ed funding includes small win for IMGs

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Providers of training for international medical graduates (IMGs) are not altogether pleased with funding provisions included in the Medicare bill passed by the House of Representatives. The bill will establish a $15.8 billion trust fund for the IMGs and an advisory panel to come up with all-payer funding, rather than phase out the program as was originally proposed. However, the law will reduce funding to 25% over the course of three years, displeasing many members of the Assn of American Medical Colleges.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Health Care Services, Medicine, Medical care, Medical colleges, Medical schools, Students, Foreign, Foreign students, Association of American Medical Colleges

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Med school to freshmen: wait a year, enroll free

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Cornell University Medical College has stated that it will waive first year tuition costs for 18 out of 119 students scheduled to begin study in fall 1996 who defer their admission to fall 1997. Cornell's medical school is offering the financial enticement because it provided only 101 spots for students in 1996, while sending out 249 letters of acceptance. Tuition costs for 1996 equal $24,000.

Management, Cornell University. Weill Medical College

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GME trust fund may offset Medicare funding cuts

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Congressional Republicans are proposing changes in the funding of graduate medical education and teaching hospitals as part of their Medicare reform legislative package. House Republicans are proposing the establishment of a trust fund of $14 billion to $17 billion. In an effort to reduce overspecialization, the lawmakers have proposed restrictions on the use of trust funds for subspecialties

Teaching Hospitals, General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, General medical & surgical hospitals, Medicare B, Medicare A, Republican Party (United States), United States. Congress, Hospitals, Teaching, Graduate medical education

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