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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS)
Health Resources and Services Administration

 

Final Minimum Percentages for ``High Rate'' and ``Significant 
Increase in the Rate'' for Implementation of the Statutory General 
Funding Preference for Grants for Faculty Development in Family 
Medicine--Fiscal Year 1994

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces 
the final minimum percentages for ``high rate'' and ``significant 
increase in the rate'' for implementation of the statutory general 
funding preference for fiscal year (FY) 1994 for Grants for Faculty 
Development in Family Medicine authorized under the authority of 
section 747(a), title VII of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as 
amended by the Health Professions Education Extension Amendments of 
1992, Public Law 102-408, dated October 13, 1992.

Purpose

    Section 747(a)(3) of the PHS Act authorizes the award of grants to 
public or nonprofit private hospitals, schools of medicine or 
osteopathic medicine, or other public or private nonprofit entities to 
assist in meeting the cost of planning, developing and operating 
programs for the training of physicians who plan to teach in family 
medicine training programs. In addition, section 747(a)(4) authorizes 
assistance in meeting the cost of supporting physicians who are 
trainees in such programs and who plan to teach in a family medicine 
training program.

Statutory General Funding Preference

    As provided in section 791(a) of the PHS Act, preference will be 
given to any qualified applicant that--
    (A) has a high rate for placing graduates in practice settings 
having the principal focus of serving residents of medically 
underserved communities; or
    (B) during the 2-year period preceding the fiscal year for which an 
award is sought, has achieved a significant increase in the rate of 
placing graduates in such settings. This preference will only be 
applied to applications that rank above the 20th percentile that have 
been recommended for approval by the peer review group.

Final Minimum Percentages for ``High Rate'' and ``Significant Increase 
in the Rate''

    A proposed notice was published in the Federal Register on 
September 29, 1993, at 58 FR 50945 for public comment. No comments were 
received during the 30-day comment period. Therefore, the proposed 
minimum percentages for ``high rate'' and ``significant increase in the 
rate'' will remain as proposed.
    High rate is defined as a minimum of 20 percent of faculty 
development/fellowship program graduates in academic year 1991-92 or 
academic year 1992-93, whichever is greater, who spend at least 50 
percent of their worktime in the specified settings.
    Significant increase in the rate means that, between academic years 
1991-92 and 1992-93, the rate of placing faculty development/fellowship 
program graduates in the specified settings has increased by a minimum 
of 50 percent and that not less than 15 percent of the academic year 
1992-1993 graduates are working in these areas.

Additional Information

    Questions regarding programmatic information should be directed to: 
Ms. Joan Harrison, Primary Care Medical Education Branch, Division of 
Medicine, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, room 9A-20, Rockville, Maryland 
20857, Telephone: (301) 443-3614.
    This program is listed at 93.895 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance. Applications submitted in response to this announcement are 
not subject to the provisions of Executive Order 12372, 
Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs, (as implemented through 
45 CFR part 100).
    This program is not subject to the Public Health System Reporting 
Requirements.

    Dated: April 11, 1994.
Ciro V. Sumaya,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 94-9100 Filed 4-14-94; 8:45 am]
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