[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33096-33097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15997]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:
    Proposed Project: Consortia Development for Health Professions 
Training in Community-Based Settings--New--Consortia which include 
academic institutions and community-based providers have been proposed 
as one mechanism for improving collaboration between health professions 
schools and communities, enabling them to provide relevant educational 
experiences and facilitating meeting education and workforce goals. The 
consortia should be based on a formal association of academic health 
professions training schools or programs and community-based providers 
(e.g., community/migrant health centers, managed care organizations) 
involved, at least, in part, in the entry-level education and/or 
continuing education of health professionals. The purposes of this 
project are (1) to prepare an inventory of consortia for health 
professions education, (2) to examine the characteristics of successful 
consortia, and (3) to examine the role that consortia play in assisting 
health professions schools or programs to prepare health care providers 
for the evolving health care system.
    An initial survey will be conducted by mail of consortia identified 
through informal conversations with key academic representatives, 
community-based providers, and other knowledgeable individuals, and a 
literature review. The initial survey will be used to gather 
information needed to determine whether the consortia meet the study 
definition, and, for those that do, to collect additional information 
that generally describes the consortia, including their goals and 
accomplishments. From the information gathered in the initial survey, 
20 consortia will be selected for additional study as models of 
successful consortia, based on criteria established by an advisory 
workgroup.
    The second survey will consist of phone interviews with up to 20 of 
the consortia identified as successful models from the initial survey. 
These data will describe the characteristics of successful consortia in 
more detail (leadership, organizational models, missions and goals, 
financing arrangements, facilitating factors, and barriers). Data will 
also be collected to determine the role that consortia play in 
assisting health professional schools to prepare health care providers 
for the evolving health care system. The burden estimates are as 
follows:

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                                                             Responses                                          
                  Form name                      No. of         per         Total       Hours per   Total burden
                                              respondents   respondent    responses     response        hours   
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Mail Survey of Consortia:                                                                                       

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    Meeting study definition................          100           1            100           .5            50 
    Not meeting study definition............          200           1            200           .1            20 
Telephone Follow-up of Successful Models....           20           1             20          2              40 
    Total...................................          300           1.1          320           .34          110 
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 
20503.

    Dated: June 12, 1997.
James J. Corrigan,
Acting Associate Administrator for Management and Program Support.
[FR Doc. 97-15997 Filed 6-17-97; 8:45 am]
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