Political Tug-of-War and Pediatric Residency Funding

With this year’s CHGME funding appropriation far from certain, pediatric residents and fellows are being paid out of clinical and other reallocated revenue — which undoubtedly creates pressures in other parts of the children’s health care system. Though this stopgap measure helps to continue the training of pediatricians and the care of their patients, we hope that in the future, GME funding can avoid being caught in this type of political tug-of-war.