(a) If the Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board determines that funds appropriated under this subchapter are available after all eligible planning grant applications under §§ 6-82-2002 and 6-82-2003 have been funded, the board shall award planning grants from excess funds to support medical residents who: (1) Have completed at least three (3) years of residency; and(2) Are enrolled in a residency program in a field in which this state has less than eighty percent (80%) of the national average of physicians per one hundred thousand (100,000) people, as determined by the board.(b) The board shall determine the following with respect to planning grants under this section: (1) The amount of a planning grant awarded under this section;(2) The number of planning grants awarded under this section; and(3) The residency fields in which recipients of planning grants under this section work.(c) A planning grant under this section shall be used to support the direct resident costs to the graduate medical education program, including without limitation stipends and benefits.(d) The board shall distribute a planning grant amount for a residency position under this section only s to the graduate medical education program, including without limitation stipends and benefits.(d) The board shall distribute a planning grant amount for a residency position under this section only upon receiving verification that the applicable residency position has been filled.Added by Act 2019, No. 854,§ 1, eff. 7/24/2019.
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