[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 111 (Thursday, June 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 31282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14753]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    This notice amends Part R of the Statement of Organization, 
Functions and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and 
Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (60 
FR 56605 as amended November 6, 1995, as last amended at 64 FR 16977-
80, dated April 7, 1999). This notice reflects the changes in the 
functional statement in the Bureau of Health Professions, Division of 
Medicine.

Section RP-20-Function

    Delete the functional statement in its entirety and replace with 
the following:

DIVISION OF MEDICINE (RP4)

    Serves as the principal focus with regard to education, practice, 
and research of medical personnel; with special emphasis on allopathic 
and osteopathic and podiatric medicine, and closely associated 
assistants, particularly physician assistants. Specifically: (1) 
Provides professional expertise in the direction and leadership 
required by the Bureau for planning, coordinating, evaluating, and 
supporting development and utilization of the Nation's health personnel 
for these professions; (2) supports and conducts programs with respect 
to the need for and the development, use, credentialing, and 
distribution of such personnel; (3) engages with other Bureau programs 
in cooperative efforts of research, development, and demonstration on 
the interrelationships between the members of the health care team, 
their tasks, education requirements, and training modalities, 
credentialing and practice; (4) supports and encourages the planning, 
development, and operation of regionally integrated educational 
systems; (5) conducts and supports studies and evaluations of physician 
and podiatric personnel requirements, distribution and availability and 
cooperates with other components of the Bureau and Agency in such 
studies; (6) analyzes and interprets physician and podiatric 
programmatic data collected from a variety of sources; (7) conducts, 
supports, or obtains analytical studies to determine the present and 
future supply and requirements of physicians and podiatrists by 
specialty and geographic location, including the linkages between their 
training and practice characteristics; (8) conducts and supports 
studies to determine potential national goals for the distribution of 
physicians in graduate medical education programs and develops 
alternative strategies to accomplish these goals; (9) supports and 
conducts programs with respect to activities, associated with the 
international migration, domestic training, and utilization of foreign 
medical graduates and U.S. citizens studying abroad; (10) maintains 
liaison with relevant health professional groups and others, including 
consumers, having common interest in the Nation's capacity to deliver 
health services; and (11) provides consultation and technical 
assistance to public and private organizations, agencies, and 
institutions, other agencies of the Federal Government, and 
international agencies and foreign governments, on all aspects of the 
Division's functions.

Section RP-30  Delegations of Authority

    All delegations and redelegations of authority which were in effect 
immediately prior to the effective date hereof have been continued in 
effect in them or their successors pending further redelegation.
    This reorganization is effective upon the date of signature.

    Dated June 2, 1999.
Claude Earl Fox,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 99-14753 Filed 6-9-99; 8:45 am]
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