The United States is projected to face a shortage of up to 122,000 physicians by 2032, including significant shortages in primary care and specialty categories.

• Medical school graduates must complete a residency to practice medicine.
• A 1997 cap on Medicare support for Graduate Medical Education has stymied increases in residency training, creating a blockage in the physician workforce pipeline.
• Arkansas will soon have more medical school graduates than residency positions, forcing graduates to pursue residency training outside of the state.
• Adding residency positions would improve the chances for resident physicians to stay in Arkansas.

The Graduate Medical Education Roundtable will enable policy makers and health care, education, community and business stakeholders to start a statewide dialogue focused on solutions to the growing residency shortage in Arkansas.
  
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Please RSVP by Thursday, August 6th
This is an invitation only event and RSVP is required.