Sponsor
Valerie Foushee
Representative · D-NC
Representative · D-NC
The bill aims to improve menopause care by funding menopause training at public medical schools—likely improving patient outcomes—but imposes administrative burdens and funding risks on those institutions and may leave uneven standards between public and private schools.
Medical students and current/future physicians will receive menopause-related training, improving their ability to diagnose and manage menopausal symptoms across specialties.
Public medical schools that accept grants will be incentivized to update curricula to include menopause education, promoting more consistent training and clinical standards in those institutions.
Middle-aged and older patients experiencing menopause will likely face fewer misdiagnoses and see improved quality of life as a result of better-trained physicians.
Public medical schools will need to modify curricula and add training requirements, increasing administrative and faculty workload.
Public institutions that fail to implement the required training risk losing grant funding, which could reduce resources available for other parts of medical education and affect students.
Private medical schools are not targeted by the grants, which may create uneven training standards and disparities in care between graduates of public versus private institutions.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Conditions HRSA Medical Student Education grants to public medical schools on including menopause-related training in their curricula.
Requires the HHS Secretary, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to make federal Medical Student Education grants to public medical schools contingent on those schools including training about menopause in their medical curricula. The goal is to ensure physicians across specialties receive education on menopause care so they are better prepared to diagnose and treat menopausal patients. This change affects grant recipients (public medical schools), medical students, and ultimately patients who seek care for menopausal symptoms by aiming to improve clinicians' knowledge and clinical competence on menopause-related issues.
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to require public institutions of higher education that receive grants under the Medical Student Education program to include training for medical students relating to menopause in the curriculums of such institutions, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 11, 2026 by Valerie Foushee · Last progress June 11, 2026