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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
 

Advisory Council; Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), announcement is made of the 
following National Advisory bodies scheduled to meet during the month 
of February 1994:

    Name: Council on Graduate Medical Education.
    Time: February 2-3, 1994, 8:30 a.m.
    Place: Conference Rooms G & H on 2/2 and Rooms D & E on 2/3, 
Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Open for 
entire meeting.
    Purpose: Provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary 
and to the Committees on Labor and Human Resources, and Finance of 
the Senate and the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Ways and 
Means of the House of Representatives, with respect to (A) the 
supply and distribution of physicians in the United States; (B) 
current and future shortages of physicians in medical and surgical 
specialties and subspecialties; (C) issues relating to foreign 
medical graduates; (D) appropriate Federal policies regarding (A), 
(B), and (C) above; (E) appropriate efforts to be carried out by 
medical and osteopathic schools, public and private hospitals and 
accrediting bodies regarding matters in (A), (B), and (C) above; (F) 
deficiencies in the needs for improvements in, existing data bases 
concerning supply and distribution of, and training programs for 
physicians in the United States.
    Agenda: There will be presentations and discussions regarding 
Recommendations from COGME Work Groups, Assessing the Impact of 
Physician Assistants on Physician Workforce Requirements; 
Implications of Managed Care for Workforce Requirements and the 
Training Environment; and Women in Medicine. A presentation on 
Communication from the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education 
and Practice: Update on Nurse Practitioner/Certified Nurse Midwife 
Work Group.
    Anyone requiring information regarding the subject Council 
should contact Marc L. Rivo, M.D., M.P.H.. Executive Secretary, 
telephone (301) 443-6190; or F. Lawrence Clare, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy 
Executive Secretary, telephone (301) 443-6326, Council on Graduate 
Medical Education, Division of Medicine, Bureau of Health 
Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, room 4C-
25, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health.
    Date and Time: February 7-9, 1994; 8:30 a.m.
    Place: Washington Marriott, 22nd and M Streets, NW., Washington, 
DC 20037, (202) 872-1500. The meeting is open to the public.
    Purpose: The Committee provides advice and recommendations to 
the Secretary with respect to the delivery, financing, research, 
development and administration of health care services in rural 
areas.
    Agenda: Plenary session on Monday, February 7, will be devoted 
to the theme: ``The Health Security Act and Health Care Reform in 
Rural Areas.'' The theme will include discussions and presentations 
on the changes which have occurred since the last meeting regarding 
general infrastructure development, network development, and 
implications for states. In addition, a presentation regarding the 
difficulties of obtaining public health services in minority rural 
communities will be provided.
    Monday afternoon and all day Tuesday, the Health Care Financing 
Work Group and the Education and Health Services Work Group will 
continue to study specific areas of the Health Security Act and its 
effect on services and financing in rural health delivery systems.
    The meeting will end on Wednesday, February 9, with reports from 
the two Work Groups. The entire meeting is open to the public.
    Anyone requiring information regarding the subject Council 
should contact Jeffery Human, Executive Secretary, National Advisory 
Committee on Rural Health, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, room 9-05, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857, Telephone (301) 443-0835, FAX (301) 443-
2803.
    Persons interested in attending any portion of the meeting 
should contact Ms. Arlene Granderson, Director of Operations, Office 
of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Telephone (301) 443-0835.
    Agenda Items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

    Dated: January 6, 1994.
Jackie E. Baum,
Advisory Committee Management Officer, HRSA.
[FR Doc. 94-707 Filed 1-11-94; 8:45 am]
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