The Boards of Trustees for the two Social Security and the two Medicare Trust Funds recently released their annual reports to Congress detailing the operations of the trust funds during 1992 and their projected financial status for future years. Based on the Trustees' best estimates, the reports show: The Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund is projected to be able to pay b...

Specialty board certification, though voluntary, has become an indispensable designation for many osteopathic physicians. The authors report rates of osteopathic specialty board certification and recertification for osteopathic physicians. Earlier this year, at the recommendation of the Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists, the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees approved the use of...

This article, adapted from a summary of the 1983 Annual Reports of the Medicare Boards of Trustees, presents the present and projected future actuarial status of the Hospital Insurance (HI) and Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Funds following the enactment of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 and the Social Security Amendments of 1983. Although the Trustees charact...

This article presents the "Summary of the 1991 Annual Reports of the Medicare Board of Trustees." The Board reports that the present financing schedule for the Hospital Insurance (HI) program is sufficient to ensure the payment of benefits over the next 14 years with trust fund exhaustion occurring in 2005 if the alternative II (intermediate) assumptions are realized. Although the HI Trust Fund...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) requires a new fiscal analysis of Medicare’s finances as part of the annual Medicare Trustees’ Report. This analysis is intended to supplement the separate analyses of the Hospital Insurance (HI) and Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Funds. While the Trustees are not required to include this new analysis ...

This is the twenty-eighth report in a monograph series authorized by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association to give wider dissemination to the findings of the Association's many commissions, committees, and task forces that are called upon from time to time to evaluate the state of the art in a problem area of current concern to the profession, to related disciplines, and...

The third edition (January 2010) of the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching (the Ag Guide) was the collaborative effort of a group of 64 authors and provides a science-based reference and performance-based guidelines for institutions that use agricultural species in research and teaching. The adoption of the Ag Guide by the AAALAC Board of Trustees as a ...

lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 391–401 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article articulates the findings of two research studies. The first, a national survey, explores the educational background and current job responsibilities of media librarians. The second, a web analysis, assesses media-related curriculum components of accredited libra...