The National Health Service Corps and Inner-City Hospitals

The looming surplus of physicians in the United States has given new life to the long-standing national debate about the training of physicians, subsidies for such training, and the large numbers of graduates of foreign medical schools in residency programs. There have been many proposals to limit federal funding for graduate medical education in order to reduce the incentives hospitals now have to hire residents.15 A consensus statement on decreasing the number of residency positions was recently issued by a consortium of leaders in medicine.6 The Health Care Financing Administration has approved a demonstration program in New York City . . .