Research Catalog

Title

Medical student financing and the armed forces health professions scholarship program / Victoria Daubert, Daniel Relles, Charles Roll, Jr.

Author

Daubert, Victoria, 1943-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA. : Rand Corporation, 1982.

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Additional Authors

• Relles, Daniel A., 1943-
• Roll, Charles Robert
• United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
• Rand Corporation

Description

ix, 88 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

The principal source of physician procurement for the Department of Defense since the end of the draft has been the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program (AFHPSP), authorized in 1972. As a result of subsequent legislation authorizing HEW's National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholarships, the competitive position of the AFHPSP had been eroded. This report describes the analysis and presents the results of a 1977 survey of first and second year medical students, carried out in late 1977. The purpose of the research was to identify AFHPSP benefit changes to ensure that the AFHPSP would remain a viable source of physician procurement. The empirical results suggested that after the transition to full NHSC funding, DOD would fall short of its requirements for medical AFHPSP accessions by about 400 students per year. The analysis also suggested that increasing service compensation by about $7,500 (1978 dollars) per year would fill the shortfall. As the empirical evidence has testified, the prediction was accurate.

Subjects

• United States
• United States > Armed Forces > Medical personnel
• Medicine > Scholarships, fellowships, etc > United States
• Fellowships and Scholarships
• Schools, Medical > economics
• Students, Medical

Note

• "Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense/Health Affairs."
• "R-2414-HA."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833003615 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^81019185^//r84

OCLC

• 7924801
• SCSB-9976300

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library