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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration

 

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 body scheduled to meet during the month of 
December 1994:

    Name: Council on Graduate Medical Education Medical Licensure 
Subgroup.
    Time: December 13, 1994, 10:00 a.m.
    Place: Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, 
Arlington, VA 22202. Open for entire meeting.
    Purpose: Review the operations of the American Medical 
Association's National Credentials Verification System and recommend 
if appropriate, an alternative credentials verification system or 
process for physicians that assures nondiscriminatory policies and 
practices in the operation of the system.
    Review the policies and practices of State Medical Boards in 
licensing international medical graduates and U.S. medical 
graduates, and determine the effects of such policies and practices.
    Report and make recommendations to Congress, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services and the Council on Graduate Medical 
Education regarding the finding of the subgroup.
    Agenda: The agenda for the second meeting of the Council on 
Graduate Medical Education Medical Licensure Subgroup includes a 
review of the results of the pilot test of the proposed 
questionnaire for the survey of selected State medical boards. 
Presentation will be made by the Educational Commission for Foreign 
Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and the Federation of State Medical Boards 
(FSMB) regarding their operations and their views on the development 
of a private sector national credentials verification system.

    Anyone requiring information regarding the meeting should contact 
Stanford Bastacky, D.M.D., M.H.S.A. telephone (301) 443-6785; Division 
of Medicine, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and 
Services Administration, Room 9A-27, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
    Agenda Items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

    Dated: November 17, 1994.
Jackie E. Baum,
Advisory Committee Management Officer, HRSA.
[FR Doc. 94-28896 Filed 11-22-94; 8:45 am]
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