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HRD-79-86 1 (1979-06-22)

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               COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                        WASHINGTON, D.C. U548
IRESTRICTED - Not to be reler.d Outside the Geuotal
                    Accounting Office except on thf  ef specific approval
                    by the Office of CongressiolbA ittten,
 B-133044             RELEASED              JUNE 22, 1979



 The Honorable William Proxmire
 Chairman, Subcommittee on HUD-
   Independent Agencies
 Committee on Appropriations
 United States Senate

 Dear Mr. Chairman:

      In your June 5, 1978, letter, you asked us to review
 the Veterans Administration  '   g   raduate medical
 education -(reside-n-y p rogram

      The enclosure discusses the extent to which VA has
 assumed responsibility for the graduate medical education of
 physicians and the effectiveness of VA's management of the
 program. Specifically, the enclosure describes (1) the au-
 thority for conducting graduate medical education in VA
 medical facilities, (2) the adequacy of VA' policies and
 reulations in quidin  VA medical centers,= an -FT    =e-
 tent to which VA monitors the program to Insure that it is
 administe_   r    l

      Based on our review of residency activities F he
 Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, VA Medical Centers, imaroy
 ments are n      i the overall      =Pmi-  na mdinistra-
 tion of VA's residenc  rogram. At these medical centers we
 -f-und-i-at unclear VA regations             'am  t and
 paof residents resulted in

     k--residents being assigned without exchange or replace-
        ment to non-VA facilities for significant periods of
        time with no VA pay loss and

     -residents participating in numerous educational activ-
        ities in non-VA facilities at VA's expense.


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