Physician Workforce and Scope of Practice
2025 Advocacy Priorities
Where We Stand
The American College of Physicians supports the adoption of a national workforce policy that would help to ensure that the number and mix of physician specialties meets the health care needs of our population, including internal medicine specialists in primary and comprehensive care of adults and adolescents. We also support adequate payments for primary care services, lifting caps on Graduate Medical Education for specialties facing shortages, delivery system reforms, to encourage an increase in the supply of internal medicine physicians and other primary care physicians.
Policies
- Empowering Physicians Through Collective Action: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians 3/28/2025
- Principles for the Physician-Led Patient-Centered Medical Home and Other Approaches to Team-Based Care 12/25/2023
- Beyond the Discharge: Principles of Effective Care Transitions Between Settings 4/26/2023
- Beyond the Referral: Principles of Effective, Ongoing Primary and Specialty Care Collaboration 4/29/2022
- Achieving Gender Equity in Physician Compensation and Career Advancement 2018
- Medical Liability Reform: Innovative Solutions for a New Health Care System 4/2014
Latest Advocacy Efforts
- LetterACP Supports the Community TEAMS Act 10/10/2025
- LetterACP Comments on Duration of Status Proposed Rule Impacting IMGs 9/25/2025
- LetterLetter to Secretary Noem Requesting an National Interest Exemption for IMGs Requiring H1-B Visas 9/25/2025
- LetterJoint Coalition letter to Secretary Noem Requesting an National Interest Exemption for IMGs Requiring H1-B Visas 9/25/2025
- LetterACP Comment Letter to Dept of Education on PSLF Proposed Rule 9/16/2025
- LetterJoint Letter of Support to Congress for the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 in the 119th Congress 9/9/2025
- LetterJoint Letter to the Department of Education to Maintain the Medical Student to Borrow Additional Unsubsidized Direct Loans Supplementing Statutory Limits 8/28/2025
- LetterACP Comment Letter to Department of Education on Graduate PLUS Loan Elimination and Federal Loan Caps 8/26/2025
- LetterJoint Letter to the House Energy and Commerce and Senate HELP Committees Supporting Reauthorization of Title VII Health Professions Programs 8/19/2025
- LetterJoint Coalition Letter to Congressional Appropriators Supporting the Highest Possible Fiscal Year 2026 Allocation for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 7/25/2025
- LetterACP’s Letter Underscoring Concerns with the Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act 7/16/2025
- LetterJoint Letter of Support for Multi-Year Reauthorization of the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program to House Energy and Commerce Committee 7/1/2025
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