[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 48 (Monday, March 14, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12537-12538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4897]


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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 hold a 
teleconference on April 29, 2005, from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. The 
conference call will be held in Room 530 at VA Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The conference call is open to the 
public at this location.
    The Committee has been established to provide broad assessment of 
physician resident positions in relationship to future veteran health 
care needs. 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 a review of 
Committee activities and updates on the VHA Resident Education Program. 
The discussions will primarily center around 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.

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    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]. 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 11:30 a.m. will be set aside to 
receive oral public statements.

    Dated: March 4, 2005.

    By direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-4897 Filed 3-11-05; 8:45 am]
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