USPHS Physicians Professional Advisory Committee (PPAC)
United State Public Health Service

 
Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF): Basic Information

 
  What is the eOPF?
What is in the eOPF?
How can you access your eOPF?
Who has access to the eOPF?
How do you get documents into your eOPF to ensure they are included in your eOPF for Promotion Board Review?
How should you indicate ownership of the documents you fax in?
  What kind of quality control for faxing is important?
How long does it take for documents to appear in the eOPF?
What is NOT appropriate for your eOPF?
What should you do if your eOPF contains errors?




 

What is the eOPF?
• It is your electronic, online, personnel record, used for PHS administrative purposes

What is in the eOPF?
• Commissioned Officer's Effectiveness Reports (COERs)
• Promotion Information Report (PIR)
• Promotion Board Score Sheets
• Curriculum Vitae (CV) and cover sheet
• Professional Physician Licenses, credentials, and certificates
• Educational Information
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) summary sheet and copies of individual course completion certificates
• Awards: PHS and non-PHS
• Special skills documents
• Outside activities documents
• PHS support activities documents
• Personnel orders
• Other PHS administrative documents


How can you access your eOPF?
Go to the PHS CC MIS web site >
Secure Area >
Officer, Liaison, and Leave Maintenance Clerk Activities >
Logon ID and Password >
Activity Menu (at page bottom) >
Access Personal Record Menu (In: Active Duty Officer Actitivities Section) >
Access your Official Personel Folder (OPF)


Who has access to the eOPF?
• You
• Appropriate PHS adminstrative staff
• Promotion Boards
• Persons you grant limited access (see electronic option to grant access)

How do you get documents into your eOPF to ensure they are available for Promotion Board Review?
• You must Fax materials to Office of Commissioned Corps Operations (OCCO/DCP)
• Materials must be faxed no later than January 23, 2006 to be considered for PY 06 Board Review

• Fax numbers for all documents except medical license
       301 480-1407
       301 480-1436

• Fax number for current medical license
       240 453-6142

How should you indicate ownership of the documents you fax in?
• Put your name, PHS serial number, and category on the upper right-hand corner of all sheets

What kind of quality control for faxing is important?
• Since there is no paper copy generated for the eOPF, the online archived documents you send will reflect any image problems transmitted by your fax machine, e.g. streaks, crooked pages.
• Certain documents do not fax well and cannot be read, e.g. those with various shades of contrast, highlighter marking, etc.
• You must check the documents online in the eOPF after you send them, to be sure they can be read, as OCCO performs no quality assurance on the transmitted documents.
• You must check that your eOPF is in proper order.


How long does it take for documents to appear in the eOPF?
• Allow 2-4 weeks for documents to appear in the eOPF

What is NOT appropriate for your eOPF?
• Photographs
• Publications
• Reprints
• Program agendas
• General promotion recommendations other than the "Reviewing Official Statement" for promotion


What should you do if your eOPF contains errors?
• Email your concerns to OCCO at phsopffix@hhs.gov


 


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Last Updated: July 12, 2006
Contact Web Master:
CAPT Judith L. Bader, MD, USPHS