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Date May 5, 1981 Report No. HRD-81-87 Title

Health: Coordinating and Linking Programs Directed Toward Increasing the Numbers of Minority and Disadvantaged Individuals in the Health Professions

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION B-203035 MAY 5.1981 The Honorable The Secretary Dear Mr. Terre1 H. Bell of Education 115140 Secretary: oordinating and Linking Subject8 m Programs Directed Toward Increasing the Numbers of Minority and Disadvantaged Individuals in the Health Professions (HBD-81-87) ' 1 Last year the Department of Health and Hum...
Date Dec. 17, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-24 Title

Health: Legislation on Sizing Military Medical Facilities Needed To Correct Improper Practices, Save Money, and Resolve Policy Conflicts

. I’ !/Yooq JZFW BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Legislation On Sizing Military Medical Facilities Needed To Correct Improper Practices, Save Money, And Resolve Policy Conflicts The Department of Defense should have the flexibility to plan the size of new military hospitals and clinics based on considerations of (1) cost effectiveness, (2) staff availability, (3...
Date Nov. 21, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-32 Title

Health: Policies on U.S. Citizens Studying Medicine Abroad Need Review and Reappraisal

BY T#ECOMPTROL;ER‘GENERAL Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITED STATES Policies On U.S.Citizens Studying Medicine Abroad Need Review And Reappraisal Many U.S. citizens attend foreign medical schools with the goal of returning to practrce in thiscountry. However, the education and training provided by some of these schools, in which several thousand U.S.citizensare enrolled, vary greatly and, in GAO...
Date Nov. 21, 1980 Report No. 113835 Title

International Affairs: U.S. Citizens Attending Foreign Medical Schools

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED AT 10 a.m., EST FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1980 STATEMENT OF GREGORY J. AHART, DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION j I BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE .-L‘ -J.-y SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT 7 6 c; .J I CITIZENS ON ATTENDING FOREIGN MEDICAL SCHOOLS I / Mr. Chairman...
Date Jan. 2, 1980 Report No. CED-80-39 Title

Health: Greater Federal Efforts Are Needed To Improve Nutrition Education in U.S. Medical Schools

GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Human Resources Division B-196805 JANUARY 2.,1980 The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare IlII 111184 Dear Mrs. Harris: Subject: hreater Federal Efforts Are Needed to Improve Nutrition Education in U.S. Medical Schoolsj(CED-80-39). Enclosed is a copy of testimony presented on November 8, ...
Date Dec. 20, 1979 Report No. FGMSD-80-25 Title

Financial Management: Citizenship and Residency Requirements for Government Student Loans

-MflROLLLR OLNLRAL OF THE UNITED S-l-ATE% B-197213 The Honorable Jim Sasser I_ Chairman, Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch Committee on Appropriations L_7 ,‘{A') United States Senate Dear Senator Subject: DECEMBER 20, 1979 Sasser: nitizenship Government and Residency Requirements Student Loans (FGMSD-80-25) for J Your letter of December 5, 1979, asked us to answer several questions concerni...
Date Nov. 8, 1979 Report No. 110835 Title

Agriculture and Food: Nutrition Training of Health Professionals

UNITED STATES GENE= ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON,D.C. 20548 Ilci’#35 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED AT 9:00 A.M. EST THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1979 110835 STATEMENT OF HENRY ESCHWECE, DIRECTOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION ACCOMPANIED BY MURUY GRANT, M.D., D.P.H, CHIEF MEDICAL ADVXSOR,6ENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE AND LINDA SCHMEER, GAO AUDITOR BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE NUTRITION OF THE ON...
Date Nov. 6, 1979 Report No. 094324 Title

Health: GAO and the Public Health

. I 2 Address P r e s e n t e d a t t h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n of t h e 0 ' / 'V 9 0 t h Annual Meetin9 of t h e A s s o c i a t i o n of A m e r i c a n M e d i c a l C o l l e g e s p in W a s h i n g t o n , D.C. on November 5 , 1 9 7 9 srq& E l m e r B. S t a a t s Comptroller G e n e r a l of t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s "GAO AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH" c f 'I It gives me great pleasure to...
Date June 22, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-86 Title

Health: Improvements Needed in the VA Medical Residency Training Program

COMPTROLLER GENERAL WASHINGTON. OF THE OS. UNITED STATES 20548 B-133044 RELEASED JUNE 22, 1979 The Honorable William Proxmire Chairman, Subcommittee on HUDIndependent Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: the Veterans education -(rzsidtneflgrogram 53 The enclosure discusses the extent to which VA has assumed responsibility for the graduate medical education o...
Date March 16, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-8 Title

The VA Health Manpower Assistance Program: Goals, Progress, and Shortcomings

REPORTBY THE OF THE UNITEDSTATES RELEASED The VA Health Manpower Assistance Program: Goals, Progress, And Shortcomings A Veterans Admininistration program is intended to increase the number of physicians and other trained health professionals in the United States and to insure the best possible care for veterans. GAO reviewed VA’s management of the program and found that it needs a number of imp...
Date March 9, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-57 Title

Health: Information on Federally Assisted Health Professions Scholarship Programs

. c 1ogB3 ” I REPORTBYTHEUS. General Accounting Office ? til!@J@ - Information On Federally Assisted Health Professions Scholarship Programs This report contains information on the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program as well as on several other federally assisted scholarship programs which are viewed by some DOD officials as competing with DOD’s program. GAO’s review was made...
Date Aug. 22, 1978 Report No. HRD-77-135 Title

Health: Progess and Problems in Improving the Availability of Primary Care Providers in Underserved Areas

-. r -- IIlllslllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll f-Ml06841 I Because of prob!ems in adequateiy assesskig the unmet demand FL’ health care in HEWdesignated health marqxwer shortage ayeas, many flational f-4ealth Service Corps physicians are underused in terms of patients served. This raises swious qurstions abou: the extent of unme: demand for health care in some of these arrjbs, and therefore, the ...
Date June 21, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-129 Title

Health: Role and Use of Optometry in the Veterans Administration Need Improvement

OF THE UNITED STNES ~~l~~~lll~l~~llllll~l ~M106273 Studies showed th,rt a significant percent of veterans who seek medicat care in Veterans Administration facilities also hawz eye or vision disorders which require some form of treatment. Many of them may not be rec,Ming needed eye or vision care because VA has only a limited number of providers of this type of care--mostly ophthalmologiits. One wa...
Date May 16, 1978 Report No. HRD-77-92 Title

Health: Are Enough Physicians of the Right Types Trained in the United States?

There appears to be some agreement within the medica! professicn regarding the need t3 tra:? ‘nore primary care physicrans in the Uniied States. This view is 132); based upon any particular st!Jdy but rather on obb:ervatlnns by people in the health care field. Opinions differ as to what constitutes a sufficient suppfy of specialists end whethe; too n-any of certain spec:alists are being trained....
Date May 16, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-105 Title

Education: Federal Capitation Support and Its Role in the Operation of Medical Schools

DOCOMENT RESUME 0599F - [B1386420] Federal Capitation Support and Its Role in the Operation of Medical Schools. FlRD-78-105; B-164031(2). ay 16, 1978. 27 pp. 1' appendices (47 pp.) . Staff study by Gregory J. Ahert, Director, Human Resources Div. Issue Area: Health Programs: Health roviders (1202). Contact: Human Resources Div. Budget Function: Health: Health Care Services (551). Organization Conc...
Date May 17, 1977 Report No. HRD-77-89 Title

Health: Technician Training and Enlisted Medical Course Attrition Rates

DOCUEINT RBSUME 02219 - [A1432429] rTechnician Training and ENlisted ledical Course Attrition Rates]. HRD-77-89; B-175773. Hay 17, 1977. 8 pp. Report to Secretary, Department of Defense; by Gregory J. ALart, Director, Human Resources and Development Div. Issue Area: Health Programs: Health Providers (1202). Contact: Human Resources and Development Div. Budget Function: National Defense: Defense-re...
Date March 9, 1977 Report No. HRD-77-55 Title

Health: Indirect Cost Payments Foregone by Institutions Receiving Minority Biomedical Support Grants--What Can Be Done?

DOCUMENT RESUME 00510 A0891648] £direct Cost Payments Foregone by Institutions Receiv..ng Minority Biomedical Support Grants--Vhat Can Be Done? HRD-77-55; B-164031(2). March 9, 1977. 38 pp. Report to Rep. Daniel J. Flood, Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations: Labor-Health, Education and elfare Subcommittee; by Robert P. eller, Acting Ccmptroller General. Issue Area: Health Programs (1200)....
Date June 15, 1976 Report No. HRD-76-140 Title

Education: Federal Costs Involved in Training Physicians Through the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program

Scholarship Program. We excluded from the analysis, nanScholarship-Prcgras-related Federal funding (such as Federal cspitation and research grants) provi.ded to medical schools by var ions Federal agencies. Such filndina is made available to civilian schools for reasons totally u.,related to the Scholarship Progran and will continue regardless of whetiier . the Program continues a analysis is par...
Date May 5, 1976 Report No. MWD-76-122 Title

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Two Military Physician Procurement Programs: The Scholarship Program and the University Program

8. .* D-76- iota.--y-.-J?y-76 CONGRiSS \’ -i\”‘1.4, OLLER GENERAL BY THE CQ OF THE UNITED STATES ~043 3w Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Two Military Physicia rocurement Programs: The Scholarship Program And The University Program Department of Defense GAO’s analysis compares the cost effectiveness of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program and the Uniformed Services Univers...
Date April 8, 1975 Report No. MWD-75-35 Title

Health: Progress and Problems in Training and Use of Assistants to Primary Care Physicians

Date July 30, 1974 Report No. B-164031(5) Title

Health: Aspects of the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program

The Honorable Marvin H0use of Representatives Dear Mr, Esch: %. Esch En accordance with your April B, 1974, request and discussions we reviewed aspects of the PubPic Health and National with your office, Health Service Ccmps Scholarship Training Program as authorized by section 225 of Public Law 92-585. We discussed the results of our review with officials of the Commissioned Personnel OperaticPns...