The New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) met on June 16 to review the “Doctors Across New York” (DANY) program, which was included as part of the 2008 State budget agreement, and to establish the charges and timelines for work groups to advise the NYS Department of Health (DOH) on specific GME program implementation issues.  COGME has set up four work groups to provide recommendations to DOH on specific issues associated with provisions of the DANY program. 
     
The Transparency and Accountability Work Group will advise DOH on the format of a new annual institutional GME budget document that NYS teaching hospitals must submit beginning in February 2009. The Ambulatory Care Training Work Group will advise DOH on the objectives and criteria to be included in a request for applications (RFA) that will be used to provide funding for enhanced ambulatory residency training in community-based settings. The Ambulatory Care Quality and Performance Standards Work Group will advise DOH on draft Medicaid primary care standards that were released in early June. The GME Innovations Pool Work Group will advise DOH on program criteria and objectives to be incorporated into an RFA that will be used to provide funding through the new GME innovations pool. GNYHA will be participating in work group discussions and plans to provide separate recommendations on all of the relevant provisions.