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projected total physician shortage of up to 86,000 physi-
cians by 2036, action is needed now to address the physi-
cian shortage and additionally, AAMC-member teaching 
health systems and hospitals train over 70 percent of 
medical residents; 
Whereas the AAMC believes that diversity in medical edu-
cation and training is an important component to helping 
ensure that all physicians are prepared to serve the Na-
tion regardless of their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic sta-
tus, or where they live; 
Whereas progress has been made in growing the number of 
medical schools and thus, the number of medical grad-
uates since the academic year 2002–2003, total medical 
school enrollment has grown by more than 38 percent as 
medical schools have expanded class sizes and more than 
32 new medical schools have opened, more remains to be 
done to increase the reach of medical education, espe-
cially in rural and underserved areas; 
Whereas a key element of addressing the physician shortage 
and diversifying the workforce is increasing Medicare 
support for graduate medical education, which will help 
boost access to high-quality care, particularly for rural 
and other underserved populations; 
Whereas continued support is needed for the Health Re-
sources and Services Administration title VII health pro-
fessions and title VIII nursing programs, which play an 
important role in connecting students to health careers 
by enhancing recruitment, education, training, and 
mentorship opportunities; 
Whereas the perspectives of learners have been represented 
and augmented through the AAMC on important issues 
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including the K–12 pathway to careers in medicine, 
STEM education, student loans, and faculty mentorship, 
and bipartisan approaches to strengthening medical edu-
cation continues; 
Whereas AAMC-member institutions equip medical students 
with the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes that 
promote diversity, equity, and inclusion to positively im-
pact patients, students, health care organizations, and so-
ciety generally by improving the clinical learning environ-
ment, health care quality, health outcomes, and patient 
satisfaction; 
Whereas medical schools and academic health systems teach-
ing and hospitals collaborate and share expertise, re-
sources, and responsibility within their communities for 
achieving shared goals; 
Whereas through interactions built on trust, mutual respect, 
cultural humility, and mutual benefit, medical schools 
and teaching hospitals work with communities on activi-
ties that include community-based service learning, com-
munity-engaged research, and community-driven health 
services delivery; 
Whereas AAMC-member institutions and the Department of 
Veterans Affairs (‘‘VA’’) have forged and maintained a 
78-year partnership, built on the shared missions of edu-
cation, health care, and medical research, which has im-
proved the lives of veterans and improved health equity 
for veterans by ensuring ensured they have access to ad-
vanced health care; 
Whereas through this historic collaboration, the VA has be-
come the largest single provider of medical training in 
the country, with approximately 70 percent of all physi-
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cians in the United States completing at least part of 
their training in VA facilities; 
Whereas medical schools and academic health systems and 
teaching hospitals contributed more than $728 billion in 
gross domestic product (‘‘GDP’’), 3.2 percent of the 
United States GDP, in 2019, an economic impact com-
parable in size to other important sectors such as trans-
portation, warehousing, and accommodation and food 
services; 
Whereas AAMC-member institutions generate approximately 
$2,218 in economic impact per person and supported 
more than 7.1 million jobs in the United States across 
multiple industries, which was approximately 4.4 percent 
of the 2019 labor force nationwide, and paid an average 
of more than $68,000 in wages, salaries, and benefits per 
job; 
Whereas academic medicine’s four mission areas are so deep-
ly interconnected that inadequate financing or reductions 
in support for one mission area limit the effectiveness of 
the others; 
Whereas cutting funding to academic medicine inhibits sup-
port for the education, research, and community collabo-
ration missions; and 
Whereas cutting funding for medical research leads to fewer 
lifesaving advancements, which results in poorer patient 
health outcomes and by maintaining predictable and reli-
able investments in medical research, physician training, 
and patient care, it improves the health of the Nation: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) supports the designation of ‘‘Academic Med-
icine Week’’; 
(2) affirms the unique and critical impact of 
academic medicine on patients and communities na-
tionwide; 
(3) recognizes the importance of ensuring 
strong Federal support for programs that support 
academic medicine’s leadership in medical research, 
cutting-edge patient care, innovative medical edu-
cation, and critical community collaborations; and 
(4) encourages the people of the United States 
to recognize the critical role of the Nation’s medical 
schools and academic health systems and teaching 
hospitals in improving the health of all. 
Æ 
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