President’s budget cuts overall funding for PMR program

President Obama’s FY 2014 budget proposal reduces funding for preventive medicine residency (PMR) training programs from $3.8 million to $2.6 million. The proposed cut is a result of a reduction of roughly $5 million to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) "public health and preventive medicine” line-item, which provides support to PMR programs, public health training centers, and public health traineeships. The public health traineeships are proposed for elimination.

ACPM is working with its champions in Congress to secure $10 million in FY 2014 from the Prevention and Public Health Fund directly for PMR training programs. Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) is finalizing a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education formalizing the $10 million request for PMR programs.

For more information, email Paul Bonta or call 202-466-2044 ext. 110.