State-Based Approaches to Reforming Medicaid-Funded Graduate Medical Education

May 5, 2017 Erin Fraher, PhD; Julie Spero, MSPH; Tom Bacon, DrPH Presentation to the 13th Annual AAMC Health Workforce Research Conference Presentation Overview High level of interest, limited implementation Most states seeking new funds, not redistributing existing funds Oversight bodies play critical role in educating legislature and navigating competing interests We heard loud call… Read more »

State-Based Approaches to Reforming Medicaid-Funded Graduate Medical Education

January 23, 2017 Presentation at GMEI Summit, Albuquerque, New Mexico Authors: Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP; Julie Spero, MSPH; Tom Bacon, DrPH Presentation Overview: There is a high level of interest, but limited implementation at the state level for GME reform Most states are seeking new funds, not redistributing existing funds Oversight bodies play critical… Read more »

State-Based Approaches to Reforming Medicaid-Funded Graduate Medical Education

January 2017 Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP; Julie Spero, MSPH; Tom Bacon, DrPH Conclusions and Policy Implications 1) More states were in the planning stages of GME reform than had actually implemented changes. 2) States tackled GME reform to address maldistribution of physicians by geography, specialty and setting; to respond to expansions in undergraduate medical… Read more »

A Methodology for Using Workforce Data to Decide which Specialties and States to Target for GME Expansion

Product: publication in Health Services Research Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP; Andy Knapton, MS; Mark Holmes, PhD Conclusions and Policy Implications This analysis proposes an objective, evidence-based methodology for allocating GME positions that could be used as the starting point for discussions about GME expansion. The methodology, based on data from a workforce projection model,… Read more »

The Sticky Wicket of Projecting Physician Workforce Needs

Author: Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP Presentation to the National Health Policy Forum March 4, 2016 Presentation Overview: The lure of the shortage rhetoric Why don’t workforce models agree? Case study: our workforce projection model Using models as tools to simulate policy change, rather than the “answer” Understand effect of overlapping/shifting roles on workforce needs… Read more »