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: Disadvantaged Assistance Tracking and Outcome

Report (DATOR)--NEW. The Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) and

the Centers of Excellence (COE) program provide opportunities for under

represented minorities and disadvantaged individuals to enter and

graduate from health professions schools. The Disadvantaged Assistance

Tracking and Outcome Report (DATOR) will be used to track program

participants through the health professions pathway to a health

professions practice outcome. The current inability to track students'

educational progress in the health professions is a major impediment in

assessing the outcome of these programs. There is currently no

identifier used that transcends the various education levels,

professional disciplines, and educational institutions.

The DATOR form, to be completed annually by HCOP and COE grantees,

includes basic data on student participants (name; social security

number; gender; race/ethnicity; targeted health professions; their

status in the educational pipeline from pre-professional through

professional training; financial assistance received under sections 736

and 739 of the Public Health Service Act in the form of stipends;

fellowships or per diem; and, their employment or practice setting

following their entry into the health care work force.)

Estimates of annualized burden are as follows:

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Number of Responses per Hours per Total burden

Type of form respondents respondent response hours

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DATOR....................................... 200 1 1 200

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

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

Wendy A. Taylor, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of

Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: December 30, 1998.

James J. Corrigan,

Associate Administrator for Program and Management Support.

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