Compendium of Graduate Medical Education Initiatives

The American Medical Association (AMA) continues to focus on ways to improve graduate medical education (GME) to ensure medical students have the opportunity and support to fulfill training requirements and become practicing doctors. Workforce experts continue to predict that the U.S. will face a significant physician shortage for both primary and specialty care over the next 10+ years if training positions are not expanded.

This document seeks to provide background regarding the challenges faced by the current GME system and to outline GME initiatives including those by the AMA, private entities, and federal and state governments that we hope will inform future GME advocacy.