Abstract
To the Editor.— The Uniformed Services Health Professions Revitalization Act of 1971, HR 2, is designed to overcome a long-standing shortage of career-oriented military personnel qualified in the health professions. The objective of an all-volunteer force by July 1973 has made this problem one of emergency proportions. The bill will establish a comprehensive scholarship program for students of medicine and other health professions. It will provide scholarships for more than 1,300 medical students in existing schools in the first year, and more than 2,600 by the fifth year of the program. The bill will attack the long-term procurement and retention problems of physicians and other health professionals in the Armed Forces by establishing a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences which includes a medical school. Recent EDITORIALS in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association have voiced opposition. Concern has been expressed
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