Forbes December 19, 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is distributing a much-needed batch of 400 new Medicare-supported graduate medical education positions to residency programs across the U.S.
These residency slots were created under the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2021 and the CAA of 2023 and are intended to help grow the physician workforce and address the nation’s doctor shortage, particularly in the primary care field. More than 60 percent of the newly awarded positions will go to primary care and psychiatry residency programs, CMS said.
“These additional residency positions demonstrate bipartisan support for continued investment in physician training and are instrumental to increasing access to care for patients by allowing more residents to serve communities nationwide,” David J. Skorton, MD,...
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