Patient access to care, GME expansion and student debt reform top list of priorities for osteopathic physicians, medical students and their patients.
Welcome to the advocacy and issue engagement portal! In this area, you will learn more about the issues we are advocating for at DO Day 2023 and how the osteopathic profession can work with Congress to pass common sense health policy.
Protecting access to care
The osteopathic profession is committed to protecting patient access to care and physician practices by advocating for positive updates to Medicare physician payment.
Learn more about this issue and how we can work with Congress to protect physician practices by supporting H.R. 2474.
Expanding graduate medical education
We urge lawmakers to expand graduate medical education and the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program.
Learn more about the THCGME program, why it needs to be reauthorized and what Congress must do to help patients.
• Locate where the 72 current THCGME programs reside.
• See where 90+ teaching health centers are being planned across the country.
Student loan reform
We continue to advocate for student loan reform by encouraging Congress to support the REDI Act (S.704/H.R.1202).
Learn more about the REDI Act, which helps address medical students and strengthen our physician workforce in communities that need it.
