Would giving hospitals the same amount for every residency help?
“The distribution of resident training funds also should be reworked,” Dr. Weiner told amednews. “The government spends more to produce a surgeon than it does to train a family physician, because surgeons take longer to train and the government subsidizes each year of their salaries.” Weiner suggests that the government give programs a certain amount for each resident regardless of “whether they train for three years or seven,” noting that “this would create more equity between primary care and subspecialty residency programs.
