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 106 STAT. 2080 PUBLIC LAW 102-408—OCT. 13, 1992 SEC. 213. EVALUATIONS. Section 859(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 298b-6(b)) is amended— (1) by striking paragraph (1); and (2) in paragraph (2>— (A) by striking "(2)"; and (B) by striking "not later than" and all that follows through "submit" and inserting the following: "not later than January 10, 1994, and every 2 years thereafter, submit". TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 42 USC 295k SEC. 301. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION. ^°^' (a) ESTABLISHMENT; DUTIES. — There is established the Council on Graduate Medical Education (in this section referred to as the "Council"). The Council shall— (1) make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the "Secretary^), and to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, with respect to— (A) the supply and distribution of physicians in the United States; (B) current and future shortages or excesses of physicians in medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties; (C) issues relating to foreign medical school graduates; (D) appropriate Federal policies with respect to the matters specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), including policies concerning changes in the financing of undergraduate and graduate medical education programs and changes in the types of medical education training in graduate medical education programs; (E) appropriate efforts to be carried out by hospitals, schools of medicine, schools of osteopathic medicine, and accrediting bodies with respect to the matters specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), including efforts for changes in undergraduate and graduate medical education programs; and (F) deficiencies in, and needs for improvements in, existing data bases concerning the supply and distribution of, and postgraduate training programs for, physicians in the United States and steps that should be taken to eliminate those deficiencies; and (2) encourage entities providing graduate medical education to conduct activities to voluntarily achieve the recommendations of the Council under paragraph (1)(E), (b) COMPOSITION. — The Council shall be composed of— (1) the Assistant Secretary for Health or the designee of the Assistant Secretary; (2) the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration; (3) the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs;

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