Final Minimum Percentages for ``High Rate'' and ``Significant Increase in the Rate'' for Implementation of the Statutory General Funding Preference for Grants for Faculty Development in Family MedicineFiscal Year 1994

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS)

Health Resources and Services Administration

Final Minimum Percentages for ``High Rate'' and ``Significant

Increase in the Rate'' for Implementation of the Statutory General

Funding Preference for Grants for Faculty Development in Family

Medicine--Fiscal Year 1994

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces

the final minimum percentages for ``high rate'' and ``significant

increase in the rate'' for implementation of the statutory general

funding preference for fiscal year (FY) 1994 for Grants for Faculty

Development in Family Medicine authorized under the authority of

section 747(a), title VII of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as

amended by the Health Professions Education Extension Amendments of

1992, Public Law 102-408, dated October 13, 1992.

Purpose

Section 747(a)(3) of the PHS Act authorizes the award of grants to

public or nonprofit private hospitals, schools of medicine or

osteopathic medicine, or other public or private nonprofit entities to

assist in meeting the cost of planning, developing and operating

programs for the training of physicians who plan to teach in family

medicine training programs. In addition, section 747(a)(4) authorizes

assistance in meeting the cost of supporting physicians who are

trainees in such programs and who plan to teach in a family medicine

training program.

Statutory General Funding Preference

As provided in section 791(a) of the PHS Act, preference will be

given to any qualified applicant that--

(A) has a high rate for placing graduates in practice settings

having the principal focus of serving residents of medically

underserved communities; or

(B) during the 2-year period preceding the fiscal year for which an

award is sought, has achieved a significant increase in the rate of

placing graduates in such settings. This preference will only be

applied to applications that rank above the 20th percentile that have

been recommended for approval by the peer review group.

Final Minimum Percentages for ``High Rate'' and ``Significant Increase

in the Rate''

A proposed notice was published in the Federal Register on

September 29, 1993, at 58 FR 50945 for public comment. No comments were

received during the 30-day comment period. Therefore, the proposed

minimum percentages for ``high rate'' and ``significant increase in the

rate'' will remain as proposed.

High rate is defined as a minimum of 20 percent of faculty

development/fellowship program graduates in academic year 1991-92 or

academic year 1992-93, whichever is greater, who spend at least 50

percent of their worktime in the specified settings.

Significant increase in the rate means that, between academic years

1991-92 and 1992-93, the rate of placing faculty development/fellowship

program graduates in the specified settings has increased by a minimum

of 50 percent and that not less than 15 percent of the academic year

1992-1993 graduates are working in these areas.

Additional Information

Questions regarding programmatic information should be directed to:

Ms. Joan Harrison, Primary Care Medical Education Branch, Division of

Medicine, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services

Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, room 9A-20, Rockville, Maryland

20857, Telephone: (301) 443-3614.

This program is listed at 93.895 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance. Applications submitted in response to this announcement are

not subject to the provisions of Executive Order 12372,

Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs, (as implemented through

45 CFR part 100).

This program is not subject to the Public Health System Reporting

Requirements.

Dated: April 11, 1994.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

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