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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Solicitation of Nominations for
Membership To Serve on the Council
on Graduate Medical Education
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
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HRSA is seeking nominations
of qualified candidates for consideration
for appointment as members of the
Council on Graduate Medical Education
(COGME). COGME provides advice and
recommendations to the Secretary of
HHS; the Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions; and the
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce on
matters concerning the supply and
distribution of physicians in the United
States, physician workforce trends,
training issues, financing policies, and
other matters of significance related to
physician workforce and graduate
medical education.
DATES: The agency will accept
nominations on a continuous basis.
ADDRESSES: Nomination packages may
be mailed to Advisory Council
Operations, Bureau of Health
Workforce, HRSA, Room 11W45C, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland
20857 or submitted electronically by
email to: BHWAdvisoryCouncilFRN@
hrsa.gov.
SUMMARY:
I. Background
AGENCY:
Request for nominations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kennita R. Carter, MD, Designated
Federal Official, COGME at 301–945–
3505 or email at kcarter@hrsa.gov. A
copy of the current COGME charter,
membership, and reports can be
obtained by accessing the COGME
website https://www.hrsa.gov/advisory
committees/bhpradvisory/cogme/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: COGME
encourages entities providing graduate
medical education to conduct activities
to voluntarily achieve the
recommendations of COGME; develops,
publishes, and implements performance
measures and longitudinal evaluations;
and recommends appropriation levels
for certain Public Health Service Act
(PHSA) Title VII programs. Meetings
take place twice a year.
Nominations: HRSA is requesting
nominations for voting members of
COGME to include representatives of
practicing primary care physicians,
national and specialty physician
organizations, foreign medical
graduates, medical student and house
staff associations, schools of allopathic
and osteopathic medicine, public and
private teaching hospitals, and
representatives of health insurers,
business, and labor. Additionally, HRSA
encourages nominations of medical
students, residents, and/or fellows.
Members receive appointments based
on their competence, interest, and
knowledge of the mission of the
profession involved.
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The Secretary of HHS will consider
nominations of all qualified individuals
within the areas of subject matter
expertise noted above. In making such
appointments, the Secretary shall
ensure a broad geographic
representation of members and a
balance between urban and rural
educational settings.
Professional organizations, employers,
or colleagues may nominate one or more
qualified persons for membership.
Individuals selected for appointment to
COGME will be invited to serve for 4
years. COGME members are appointed
as special government employees and
receive a stipend and reimbursement for
per diem and travel expenses incurred
for attending meetings and/or
conducting other business on behalf of
COGME, as authorized by section 5
U.S.C. 5703 for persons employed
intermittently in government service.
To evaluate possible conflicts of
interest, individuals selected for
consideration for appointment will be
required to provide detailed information
regarding their financial holdings,
consultancies, and research grants or
contracts. The selected candidates must
fill out the U.S. Office of Government
Ethics (OGE) Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report, OGE Form 450.
Disclosure of this information is
necessary to determine if the selected
candidate is involved in any activity
that may pose a potential conflict with
their official duties as a member of the
Committee.
A nomination package should include
the following information for each
nominee: (1) A letter of nomination
from an employer, a colleague, or a
professional organization stating the
name, affiliation, and contact
information for the nominee, the basis
for the nomination (i.e., what specific
attributes, perspectives, and/or skills
does the individual possess that would
benefit the workings of COGME), and
the nominee’s field(s) of expertise; (2) a
letter of interest from the nominee
stating the reasons they would like to
serve on COGME; (3) a biographical
sketch of the nominee, including a copy
of his/her curriculum vitae and his/her
contact information (address, daytime
telephone number, and email address);
and (4) the name, address, daytime
telephone number, and email address
where the person nominating the
individual can be contacted.
HRSA will collect and retain
nomination packages to create a pool of
possible future COGME voting
members. When a vacancy occurs,
HRSA may review nomination packages
from the appropriate category and may
contact nominees at that time.
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Nominations should be updated and
resubmitted every 4 years to continue to
be considered for committee vacancies.
HHS strives to ensure a balance of the
membership of COGME in terms of
points of view presented and the
committee’s function and makes every
effort to ensure the representation of
views of women, all ethnic and racial
groups, and people with disabilities on
HHS Federal Advisory Committees.
Therefore, we encourage nominations of
qualified candidates from these groups
and endeavor to make appointments to
COGME without discrimination on the
basis of age, race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, disability, and
cultural, religious, or socioeconomic
status.
Authority: Section 762 of the PHSA (42
U.S.C. 294o), as amended. COGME is
governed by provisions of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as
amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), which sets
forth standards for the formation and use of
advisory committees and applies to the
extent that the provisions of FACA do not
conflict with the requirements of PHSA
Section 762.
Amy P. McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive
Secretariat.
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Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request Information
Collection Request Title: Health Center
Patient Survey, Reinstatement With
Change
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
SUMMARY:
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, HRSA announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to
OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than July 13, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Lisa Wright-Solomon, Room
14N39, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call Lisa Wright-Solomon, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer
at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Health Center Patient Survey, OMB No.
0915-0368—Reinstatement with Change.
Abstract: HRSA supported health
centers (those entities funded under
section 330 of the Public Health Service
Act) deliver comprehensive, affordable,
quality primary health care to nearly 26
million patients nationwide, regardless
of their ability to pay. Nearly 1,400
health centers operate more than 11,000
service delivery sites in every U.S. state,
the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific
Basin. In the past, HRSA has conducted
the Health Center Patient Survey
(HCPS), which surveys patients of
HRSA funded health centers. The HCPS
collects information about
sociodemographic characteristics,
health conditions, health behaviors,
access to and use of health care services,
and satisfaction with health care
received at HRSA funded health centers.
HRSA will use the same overarching
modules from the 2014 HCPS but will
employ changes designed to streamline
the questionnaire to minimize burden
and to standardize questions with other
national surveys enabling comparative
analyses with particular focus on HHS
and HRSA priority areas (e.g., mental
health and substance use). Survey
results come from in-person, one-on-one
interviews with patients who are
selected as nationally representative of
the Health Center Program patient
population.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The HCPS uniquely
focuses on comprehensive, nationally
representative, individual level data
from the perspective of health center
patients. By investigating how well
HRSA funded health centers meet the
health care needs of the medically
underserved and how patients perceive
their quality of care, the HCPS serves as
an empirically based resource to inform
HRSA policy, funding, and planning
decisions.
Likely Respondents: Patients at HRSA
supported health centers.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Compared to previous
HCPS, the estimated burden hours for
an individual respondent remains the
same in the reinstatement. However, the
total annual burden hours and number
of survey respondents is anticipated to
increase in order reflect the growing
number of patients served by the Health
Center Program. The total annual
burden hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
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Number of
responses per
respondent
220
700
13,120
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220
700
13,120
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Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
2.00
3.15
0.17
1.25
Total
burden hours
440
2,205
2,230
11,323
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[Pages 22271-22272]
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[FR Doc No: 2018-10129]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Solicitation of Nominations for Membership To Serve on the
Council on Graduate Medical Education
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for nominations.
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SUMMARY: HRSA is seeking nominations of qualified candidates for
consideration for appointment as members of the Council on Graduate
Medical Education (COGME). COGME provides advice and recommendations to
the Secretary of HHS; the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor
and Pensions; and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy
and Commerce on matters concerning the supply and distribution of
physicians in the United States, physician workforce trends, training
issues, financing policies, and other matters of significance related
to physician workforce and graduate medical education.
DATES: The agency will accept nominations on a continuous basis.
ADDRESSES: Nomination packages may be mailed to Advisory Council
Operations, Bureau of Health Workforce, HRSA, Room 11W45C, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857 or submitted electronically by email
to: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kennita R. Carter, MD, Designated
Federal Official, COGME at 301-945-3505 or email at [email protected]. A
copy of the current COGME charter, membership, and reports can be
obtained by accessing the COGME website https://www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/bhpradvisory/cogme/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: COGME encourages entities providing graduate
medical education to conduct activities to voluntarily achieve the
recommendations of COGME; develops, publishes, and implements
performance measures and longitudinal evaluations; and recommends
appropriation levels for certain Public Health Service Act (PHSA) Title
VII programs. Meetings take place twice a year.
Nominations: HRSA is requesting nominations for voting members of
COGME to include representatives of practicing primary care physicians,
national and specialty physician organizations, foreign medical
graduates, medical student and house staff associations, schools of
allopathic and osteopathic medicine, public and private teaching
hospitals, and representatives of health insurers, business, and labor.
Additionally, HRSA encourages nominations of medical students,
residents, and/or fellows. Members receive appointments based on their
competence, interest, and knowledge of the mission of the profession
involved.
The Secretary of HHS will consider nominations of all qualified
individuals within the areas of subject matter expertise noted above.
In making such appointments, the Secretary shall ensure a broad
geographic representation of members and a balance between urban and
rural educational settings.
Professional organizations, employers, or colleagues may nominate
one or more qualified persons for membership. Individuals selected for
appointment to COGME will be invited to serve for 4 years. COGME
members are appointed as special government employees and receive a
stipend and reimbursement for per diem and travel expenses incurred for
attending meetings and/or conducting other business on behalf of COGME,
as authorized by section 5 U.S.C. 5703 for persons employed
intermittently in government service.
To evaluate possible conflicts of interest, individuals selected
for consideration for appointment will be required to provide detailed
information regarding their financial holdings, consultancies, and
research grants or contracts. The selected candidates must fill out the
U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report, OGE Form 450. Disclosure of this information is
necessary to determine if the selected candidate is involved in any
activity that may pose a potential conflict with their official duties
as a member of the Committee.
A nomination package should include the following information for
each nominee: (1) A letter of nomination from an employer, a colleague,
or a professional organization stating the name, affiliation, and
contact information for the nominee, the basis for the nomination
(i.e., what specific attributes, perspectives, and/or skills does the
individual possess that would benefit the workings of COGME), and the
nominee's field(s) of expertise; (2) a letter of interest from the
nominee stating the reasons they would like to serve on COGME; (3) a
biographical sketch of the nominee, including a copy of his/her
curriculum vitae and his/her contact information (address, daytime
telephone number, and email address); and (4) the name, address,
daytime telephone number, and email address where the person nominating
the individual can be contacted.
HRSA will collect and retain nomination packages to create a pool
of possible future COGME voting members. When a vacancy occurs, HRSA
may review nomination packages from the appropriate category and may
contact nominees at that time.
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Nominations should be updated and resubmitted every 4 years to continue
to be considered for committee vacancies.
HHS strives to ensure a balance of the membership of COGME in terms
of points of view presented and the committee's function and makes
every effort to ensure the representation of views of women, all ethnic
and racial groups, and people with disabilities on HHS Federal Advisory
Committees. Therefore, we encourage nominations of qualified candidates
from these groups and endeavor to make appointments to COGME without
discrimination on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
orientation, disability, and cultural, religious, or socioeconomic
status.
Authority: Section 762 of the PHSA (42 U.S.C. 294o), as
amended. COGME is governed by provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), which sets
forth standards for the formation and use of advisory committees and
applies to the extent that the provisions of FACA do not conflict
with the requirements of PHSA Section 762.
Amy P. McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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