[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 155 (Friday, August 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46236-46237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13214]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Council on Graduate Medical Education; Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given of the following 
meeting:
    Name: Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME).

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    Dates and Times: September 6, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; and September 
7, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
    Place: Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg, 620 Perry Parkway, 
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877.
    Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
    Agenda: The agenda for September 6 in the morning will include: 
Welcome and opening comments from the Acting Chair and Acting Executive 
Secretary of COGME and senior management staff of the Health Resources 
and Services Administration. Following will be an election of the Chair 
of COGME.
    There will be an orientation for new council members. Later that 
morning there will be a presentation of resource papers on the issue of 
National Service for Physicians, followed by discussion. In the 
afternoon there will be a presentation of resource papers on the need 
for graduate medical education financing flexibility; a discussion of 
the papers will follow. There will be a discussion of next day's 
activities needed for the preparation of two COGME reports covering the 
two issues presented in the resource papers. Writing group members 
within COGME will be identified for each of the two reports.
    In the morning of September 7, COGME members will receive ethics 
training as appropriate. There will be a presentation and discussion of 
a sixth resource paper on the need for GME flexibility. Following these 
discussions, the Council members will break out into two writing 
groups. After about four hours of writing group discussions, COGME 
members will reconvene in plenary session. A report will be given by 
the two writing group chairs of draft recommendations, proposed outline 
and list of members to draft each section of the two reports. There 
will be a discussion of the process and time-frame for producing the 
two report drafts.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerald M. Katzoff, Acting Executive 
Secretary, COGME, Division of Medicine and Dentistry, Bureau of Health 
Professions, Parklawn Building, Room 9A-27, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857, Telephone (301) 443-6785.

     Dated: August 7, 2006.
Cheryl R. Dammons,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
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