PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kurz, Troy
AU  - Liaw, Winston
AU  - Wingrove, Peter
AU  - Petterson, Stephen
AU  - Bazemore, Andrew
TI  - Funding Instability Reduces the Impact of the Federal Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2017.03.160341
DP  - 2017 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 279--280
VI  - 30
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/3/279.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/3/279.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2017 May 01; 30
AB  - The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program is a decentralized residency training component of the Affordable Care Act, created to combat critical shortages and maldistribution of primary care physicians. The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education and federal data reveal that the THCGME program accounted for 33% of the net increase in family medicine residency positions between 2011 and 2015. However, amid concerns about the program's stability, the contribution of the THCGME program to the net increase fell to 7% after 2015.