In carrying out its broad mission and objectives, the function of the MOLC shall include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Provide general professional advice and recommendations on behalf of minority officers:

a. Review and comment on issues referred to the MOLC by the Surgeon General, Chairperson, Agency Heads, and/or Program Heads.

 

b. Deliberate issues, develop findings, and present recommendations to the Surgeon General and/or Chairperson.

 

c. Provide advice on the professional aspects of the MOLC, i.e. new technologies, regulations, curricula, roles, etc.

 

d. Provide advice on ethical and professional standards issues.

a. Advise on CC and CS practices concerning career development.

 

b. Advise on operating practices concerning the appropriate/optimum use of personnel designed to best meet PHS needs and the needs of the individual.

 

c. Advise on issues related to PHS promotion practices and, for commissioned officers, assimilation into the Regular Corps for the MOLC.

 

d. Identify both continuing and long-term intramural/extramural education needs of the MOLC, and identify and recommend training and/or experience opportunities designed to meet these needs.

 

e. Review applications for long-term training, assess appropriateness of requested training in terms of the ethnic minority officers needs and provide recommendations for the approval/disapproval of such requests.

3. Provide advice and assistance on staffing issues:

a. Assess and project need for the MOLC throughout the PHS.

b. Provide advice on the goals, objectives, and procedures designed to meet PHS staffing needs.

c. Provide guidance for recruitment to the short-term student affiliation programs (COSTEP, summer students, etc.).

d. Develop, and/or review and critique, ethnic minority specific PHS recruitment materials, procedures, and programs.

 

e. Help establish networks of current, as well as former, PHS professionals, who can assist and facilitate recruitment activities.

f. Provide guidance to approved PHS recruiters concerning the recruitment of qualified candidates of ethnic minority officers.