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42 U.S. Code § 294o. Advisory Council on Graduate Medical Education
(a) Establishment; dutiesThere 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 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 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;