[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 29, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 12315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-4725]


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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 (OMB), 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, email 
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 
443-1984.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: Area Health Education Centers Project on the Mental 
and Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Issues of Veterans/Service 
Members and Their Families (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--[New]

    The Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program consists of 
interdisciplinary, community-based, primary care training programs 
where academic and community-based leaders work to improve the 
distribution, diversity, supply, and quality of health care personnel. 
The AHEC Program grantees include schools of medicine or osteopathic 
medicine, incorporated consortiums of such schools, or the parent 
institutions of such schools. In a state with no AHEC program in 
operation, a school of nursing is eligible to apply. AHEC grantees 
contract with community-based AHEC centers to implement educational 
activities that involve several health professions disciplines and 
expose students to primary care and the needs of underserved areas and 
health disparity populations. The training of primary care personnel is 
a central focus of AHEC programs, where emphasis is placed on training 
individuals in primary care delivery sites (in both rural and other 
underserved areas). The AHEC programs and centers, along with state and 
local partners, implement student training programs, continuing 
education for healthcare providers, and health careers outreach 
activities that are responsive to the current healthcare workforce and 
service needs of underserved areas and health disparity populations of 
a state or region.
    The AHEC Program is implementing a project to provide high quality, 
culturally competent care to veterans/service members and their 
families by providing continuing education (CE) to civilian primary 
care, mental and behavioral health, and other healthcare providers. The 
purpose of these data collection instruments, including the CE 
Participant Evaluation Form and the CE Participant Evaluation Follow-Up 
Form, is to provide data to inform and support the evaluation of the 
project, assess the extent to which the CE provided affected a 
provider's clinical or administrative practice, and provide aggregate 
information about the providers trained and project activities.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
           Instrument               respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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CE Participant Evaluation Form..          10,000               1          10,000              .5           5,000
CE Participant Evaluation Follow-          2,000               1           2,000             .17             340
 Up Form........................
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    Total.......................      \1\ 10,000  ..............  ..............  ..............           5,340
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\1\ The CE Evaluation Follow-Up Form will only be completed by a sample of the total CE participants. Thus, the
  2,000 respondents will not be unique respondents, but instead a sub-set of the CE Participant Evaluation Form
  respondents.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: February 22, 2012.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-4725 Filed 2-28-12; 8:45 am]
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