CONTINUATION OF UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES.

SEC. 922. CONTINUATION OF UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES. (a) Closure Prohibited.— The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences may not be closed. (b) Budgetary Commitment to Continuation.— It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should budget for the ongoing operation of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as an institution of professional education that is vital to the education and training each year of significant numbers of personnel of the uniformed services for careers as uniformed services health care providers. (c) GAO Evaluation.— Not later than June 1, 1995, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a detailed report on the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The report shall include the following: (1) A comparison of the cost of obtaining physicians for the Armed Forces from the University with the cost of obtaining physicians from other sources. (2) An assessment of the retention rate needs of the Armed Forces for physicians in relation to the respective retention rates of physicians obtained from the University and physicians obtained from other sources and the factors that contribute to retention rates among military physicians obtained from all sources. 108 STAT. 2830 (3) A review of the quality of the medical education provided at the University with the quality of medical education provided by other sources of military physicians. (4) A review of the overall issue of the special needs of military medicine and how those special needs are being met by physicians obtained from University and physicians obtained from other sources. (5) An assessment of the extent to which the University has responded to the 1990 report of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, including recommendations as to resolution of any continuing issues relating to management and internal fiscal controls of the University, including issues relating to the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine identified in the 1990 report. (6) Such other recommendations as the Comptroller General considers appropriate.