Goal: 1.1 entry-level
residency positions for each graduating medical student.
- Texas
desperately needs more residency training slots to keep up with our
booming populations and rapid growth of our medical school classes and
creation of new medical schools.
- Texas
needs to increase residencies to ensure we have enough slots to retain our
medical school graduates.
- To
meet the 1.1 goal, we need to add almost 600 GME positions by the year
2022.
Last session, the
legislature added enough money to add up to 125 NEW slots and keep the ones
added in 2013. The legislature created a permanent endowment of roughly $300
million to help expand GME starting in 2018.
