[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 223 (Friday, November 19, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 67777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25727]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Advisory Committee on Veterans Health Administration Resident 
Education, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Advisory Committee on 
Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Resident Education will meet 
December 9, 2004, from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. This meeting will be held 
at the Ritz-Carlton, 1150 22nd Street, NW., Washington, DC. The meeting 
is open to the public.
    The Committee has been established to provide broad assessment of 
physician resident positions in relationship to future health care 
needs of veterans. The Committee will affirm the philosophical 
principles governing VHA's internal Graduate Medical Education Advisory 
Committee, provide external perspective and national guidance on VHA 
resident education, and make recommendations regarding further actions 
to the Secretary.
    The agenda topics for this meeting will include briefings and 
updates on the VHA Resident Education Program and reflect upon VHA's 
graduate medical education participation in the past, present, and 
future. The discussions will primarily center on evaluation of how VHA 
may best go forward with the goal of balancing the educational needs of 
resident physicians while providing excellent health care to veterans.
    Any member of the public wishing to attend should contact Mr. 
Andrew Fleshman at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of 
Academic Affiliations (144), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20420, by phone at (202) 273-8369, by fax at (202) 273-9031, or by e-
mail at [email protected]. Interested persons may attend, appear before, 
or file statements with the Committee. Statements, if in written form, 
may be filed before the meeting or within 10 days after the meeting. 
One half hour of the Committee's session beginning at 2:30 p.m. will be 
set aside to receive oral public statements.

    Dated: October 27, 2004.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-25727 Filed 11-18-04; 8:45 am]
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