The MHA Graduate Medical Education (GME) Capitol Day welcomed more than 40 physician residents from a dozen member hospitals to the MHA Capitol Advocacy Center offices May 1 for a day of meetings with members of the Michigan Legislature and their staffs. Each group of residents met with a combination of lawmakers and legislative staff throughout the day, with conversations focusing on the importance of graduate medical education, physician residents in the healthcare continuum and Michigan’s future physician healthcare workforce talent pipeline.
Meetings were held in the Michigan Capitol, the Anderson House Office Building and the Senate Binsfeld Office Building.
Participating lawmaker offices included:
- House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit)
- House Minority Leader Matt Hall (R-Richland Township)
- Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt (R-Porter Township)
- Senate Healthy Policy Chair Kevin Hertel (D-Saint Clair Shores)
- Senate Health Policy Vice Chair Sylvia Santana (D-Detroit)
- House Appropriations Chair Angela Witwer (D-Delta Township)
- House Speaker Pro Tempore Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia)
- House Majority Floor Leader Abraham Aiyash (D-Hamtramck)
Residents used and shared with lawmakers an infographic that provides facts regarding GME.
Members with questions on GME and state legislation related to the healthcare workforce should contact Elizabeth Kutter at the MHA.