Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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, 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, call the

HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.

The following request has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995:

Proposed Project: Consortia Development for Health Professions

Training in Community-Based Settings--New--Consortia which include

academic institutions and community-based providers have been proposed

as one mechanism for improving collaboration between health professions

schools and communities, enabling them to provide relevant educational

experiences and facilitating meeting education and workforce goals. The

consortia should be based on a formal association of academic health

professions training schools or programs and community-based providers

(e.g., community/migrant health centers, managed care organizations)

involved, at least, in part, in the entry-level education and/or

continuing education of health professionals. The purposes of this

project are (1) to prepare an inventory of consortia for health

professions education, (2) to examine the characteristics of successful

consortia, and (3) to examine the role that consortia play in assisting

health professions schools or programs to prepare health care providers

for the evolving health care system.

An initial survey will be conducted by mail of consortia identified

through informal conversations with key academic representatives,

community-based providers, and other knowledgeable individuals, and a

literature review. The initial survey will be used to gather

information needed to determine whether the consortia meet the study

definition, and, for those that do, to collect additional information

that generally describes the consortia, including their goals and

accomplishments. From the information gathered in the initial survey,

20 consortia will be selected for additional study as models of

successful consortia, based on criteria established by an advisory

workgroup.

The second survey will consist of phone interviews with up to 20 of

the consortia identified as successful models from the initial survey.

These data will describe the characteristics of successful consortia in

more detail (leadership, organizational models, missions and goals,

financing arrangements, facilitating factors, and barriers). Data will

also be collected to determine the role that consortia play in

assisting health professional schools to prepare health care providers

for the evolving health care system. The burden estimates are as

follows:

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Responses

Form name No. of per Total Hours per Total burden

respondents respondent responses response hours

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Mail Survey of Consortia:

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Meeting study definition................ 100 1 100 .5 50

Not meeting study definition............ 200 1 200 .1 20

Telephone Follow-up of Successful Models.... 20 1 20 2 40

Total................................... 300 1.1 320 .34 110

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: June 12, 1997.

James J. Corrigan,

Acting Associate Administrator for Management and Program Support.

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