Part 23—national Health Service Corps

Part 23—national Health Service Corps

contact with persons who have Hansen’s disease. (As of October 24, 1985, that monthly rate was $110.) (c) An officer or employee may be paid special pay for any pay period, under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, only to the extent that it does not cause his or her aggregate pay for that pay period to exceed the biweekly rate of basic pay for Level V of the Executive Schedule. As used in ...

Does the National Health Service Corps Improve Physician Supply in Underserved Locations?

In 1970 the National Health Service Corps (NHSC or Corps) was created as part of the Emergency Health Personnel Act. The goal of this agency is to provide health personnel, most often physicians, to communities that are deemed “medically underserved.” The Corps has provided an important subsidy to medical students by providing access to full scholarships covering tuition and fees in exchange fo...

Some aspects of the National Health Service.

An Analysis of the Populations of the Air Force's Medical and Professional Officer Corps.

Since the advent of the all-volunteer force, one of the foremost personnel challenges of the U.S. Air Force has been recruiting and retaining an adequate number of medical and professional officers in the Air Force's seven medical and professional officer corps: the Biomedical Sciences Corps (BSC), the Chaplain Corps, the Dental Corps, the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps (attorneys), the Med...

The National Health Service Corps--a critical component of provider recruitment in North Carolina's rural and underserved communities.

NC Med J May/June 2010, Volume 71, Number 3 In 1972, the AHEC program was created as one mechanism to coordinate the many emerging federal and state programs related to health workforce development. By the 1980s these were bundled under the rubric of Title VII (referring to a subsection of the Public Health Service Act) for physicians, dentists, and other non-nursing health professions. The rec...