The Pentagon Must Do More to Attract and Keep Good Dentists and Doctors, GAO Finds
21 Jan 2020
Military.com | By Dorothy Mills-Gregg
The Defense Department needs to do more to track whether its physician and dentist retention and recruitment programs are working, a government watchdog report states.
Released last week, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report also found that DoD wages for all physician specialties -- excluding non-monetary benefits such as housing and retirement pensions -- are below median private-sector wages.
The report concludes that the DoD is not "consistently" tracking what civilians in the same fields earn. And it's not collecting data on retention bonus acceptance rates or determining how much it costs to train a replacement when a physician leaves.
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