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JAMA. 1999;281:202.

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At its Interim Meeting in December, the American Medical Association-Resident Physicians Section (AMA-RPS) discussed 17 resolutions and 5 reports concerning graduate medical education (GME) funding, resident working conditions, public health and safety, and other topics. The following are the actions taken on resolutions and reports directly related to GME and residency training. We will report on RPS actions on other topics in next week's column.

Annual Contracts for Continuing Residents asked the AMA to urge the Accredited Council on Graduate Medical Education to require residency programs to present an annual written contract by March 1 to the residents who can continue in their programs for an additional year. This would give a resident sufficient time to apply to other programs if their current program chooses not to renew the resident's contract.

Public Disclosure of Residency Revenue and Expenditures asked the RPS Governing Council to study and report on the finances . . . [Full Text of this Article]