- The Honorable John Boozman
U.S. Senate
555 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senate
322 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Terri Sewell
U.S. House of Representatives
2201 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515 - The Honorable Raphael Warnock
U.S. Senate
717 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Susan Collins
U.S. Senate
479A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Brian Fitzpatrick
U.S. House of Representatives
271 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Sens. Boozman, Warnock, Collins, and Schumer, and Reps. Sewell and Fitzpatrick:
On behalf of the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Advocacy Coalition, the undersigned organizations offer our enthusiastic support for the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 (S. 2439/ H.R. 4731). This bipartisan legislation is crucial to expanding the physician workforce and ensuring that patients across the country are able to access quality care from health providers.
As demand for health care services continues to rise, projections show a physician shortage of up to 86,000 primary care and specialty doctors by 2036.1 To meet this growing need, America’s medical schools, teaching hospitals, and physicians are making significant investments in
training the next generation of providers and advancing innovative care delivery models. These efforts are improving efficiency and expanding access, but they alone are not enough. Without expanding the pipeline of physicians, workforce shortages and access barriers will remain.
It is vital that Congress continue to build on recent bipartisan progress to invest in physician training, including the creation of 1,200 new Medicare-supported GME positions since 2021, the first increase in nearly three decades. The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 builds on this momentum by adding 2,000 Medicare-supported GME slots annually over seven years, for a total of 14,000 new positions. Importantly, the bill ensures that a portion of these new positions will be directed to hospitals that serve high-need communities including: rural hospitals, hospitals serving health professional shortage areas with a priority to those affiliated with Historically Black Medical Schools, hospitals in states with new medical schools or campuses, and hospitals training above their existing resident caps.
We look forward to working together to support the training of future physicians and to secure additional support for the passage of this important legislation.
Sincerely,
Association of American Medical Colleges
Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM)
Alliance of Specialty Medicine
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
American Academy of Neurology
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine
American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Board of Medical Specialties
American College of Academic Addiction Medicine
American College of Cardiology
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American College of Osteopathic Internists
American College of Physicians
American College of Radiology
American College of Rheumatology
American College of Surgeons
American Gastroenterological Association
American Medical Association
American Osteopathic Association
American Psychiatric Association
American Society for Clinical Pathology
American Society of Addiction Medicine
American Society of Anesthesiologists
American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
American Society of Echocardiography
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Urological Association
AMGA
Asian and Pacific American Medical Student Association
Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR)
Association of Minority Health Professions Schools
California Hospital Association
Children’s Hospital Association
Coalition for Clinical and Translational Science
Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations
College of American Pathologists
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA)
Federation of American Hospitals
Federation of State Medical Boards
Greater New York Hospital Association
Healthcare Association of New York State
Healthcare Leadership Council
Heart Failure Society of America
Medical Group Management Association
Minnesota Hospital Association
National AHEC Organization
National Rural Health Association
Obesity Medicine Association
Premier Inc.
Sleep Research Society
Society for Vascular Surgery
Society of General Internal Medicine
Society of Interventional Radiology
Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
Thalamus
Thalamus.Org
The American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Vizient, Inc.
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