Season 2, Ep #25 – No Piece of Cake: Inside the Clinician Pipeline Crisis

The clinician shortage is hardly easy as pie and in this week's episode, the AMGA policy team unpacks why fixing it is even harder than it looks. The conversation connects two federal issues: the House Ways and Means Committee's recent hearing on the next generation of America's healthcare workforce and proposed federal student loan caps under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that could make medical education harder to finance. From GME funding and rural training gaps to the Department of Education's narrow definition of "professional degree," the team explores how federal policy shapes the healthcare workforce pipeline and what AMGA is doing about it.