Here are five observations:
1. However, about 70 percent of the physicians who receive medical education in New Jersey leave to practice in other states.
2. Still, New Jersey plans to spend $188 million in state and federal funds for graduate medical education in 42 teaching hospitals in 2017.
3. Thirty-eight of those hospitals will receive more funding than they received the previous year.
4. The state funds 898 first-year residency slots, compared to Pennsylvania’s 2,064 slots and New York’s 3,873 slots.
5. State hospitals are emphasizing peer mentoring and research opportunities to retain residents.
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