[llamaimperative]

You just spend more money to scale the program. Funding for the residency program has been frozen since the late 90s, the demand for doctors has not been.

[pc86]

You can't "just" spend more on residency training without also "just" making med school classes bigger. You can't "just" expand med school classes without "just" increasing teaching staff, who are 9 times out of 10 physicians themselves. And very few physicians are going to willingly turn down $500k/yr clinical jobs to teach for a fraction of that.

[llamaimperative]

You’re describing problems that are all solved by money.

[zahma]

Why do we blame this on medical lobbies when it appears to be the same issue across the board for funding state education departments?

[llamaimperative]

Because it’s a different issue with different principals involved.

Does the federal government set the national number of teachers who can be trained each year?