Congress is at the verge of passing across the board cuts to graduate medical education funding.

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Institute the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommendations for greater accountability of funds used for graduate medical education training.

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But Reddy and her colleague, Dr. Julie Oyler, also a University of Chicago internist, say graduate medical education programs are working to make internal medicine more attractive.

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"If 40 million people come online with access to medicine, the system won't be able to accommodate them, " says Dr. Russell Robertson, chairman of the Council on Graduate Medical Education and a professor at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine.

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