See also:
Health Workforce Credentialing
Workforce Reform
Urban/Inner City Training Program in Family Medicine
Family Medicine, Undergraduate Training in
Family Physicians, Role and Production of
Medically Underserved
Health Workforce Training
The AAFP supports federal health workforce legislation that:
- Ensures that physicians will have freedom of choice in the selection of practice sites.
- Supports current federal programs, such as the National Health Service Corps, which finance the cost of a student's education, provided that such voluntary federal programs contain reasonable "buy out" provisions for federal scholarship monies given to students.
- Includes in those sections seeking to secure more physicians in currently underserved areas, provisions that:
- support the concept of equal fees for equal service for these practitioners;
- make funds available that would allow family medicine residencies to expand and become more competitive in attracting medical students, and
- expand quality educational programs into more rural and inner-city areas and encourage medical schools to include these programs in the core curriculum training of junior and senior medical students.
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