[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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