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42 U.S.C. § 295a — Public health training centers
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**(a) In general** The Secretary may make grants or contracts for the operation of public health training centers.
**(b) Eligible entities**
(1) **In general** — A public health training center shall be an accredited school of public health, or another public or nonprofit private institution accredited for the provision of graduate or specialized training in public health, that plans, develops, operates, and evaluates projects to improve preventive medicine, health promotion and disease prevention, or access to and quality of health care services in rural or medically underserved communities.
(2) **Preference** — In awarding grants or contracts under this section the Secretary shall give preference to accredited schools of public health.
**(c) Certain requirements** With respect to a public health training center, an award may not be made under subsection (a) unless the program agrees that it—
(1) will establish or strengthen field placements for students in public or nonprofit private health agencies or organizations;
(2) will involve faculty members and students in collaborative projects to enhance public health services to medically underserved communities;
(3) will specifically designate a geographic area or medically underserved population to be served by the center that shall be in a location removed from the main location of the teaching facility of the school that is participating in the program with such center; and
(4) will assess the health personnel needs of the area to be served by the center and assist in the planning and development of training programs to meet such needs.
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**(a) In general** The Secretary may make grants or contracts for the operation of public health training centers.
**(b) Eligible entities**
(1) **In general** — A public health training center shall be an accredited school of public health, or another public or nonprofit private institution accredited for the provision of graduate or specialized training in public health, that plans, develops, operates, and evaluates projects to improve preventive medicine, health promotion and disease prevention, or access to and quality of health care services in rural or medically underserved communities.
(2) **Preference** — In awarding grants or contracts under this section the Secretary shall give preference to accredited schools of public health.
**(c) Certain requirements** With respect to a public health training center, an award may not be made under subsection (a) unless the program agrees that it—
(1) will establish or strengthen field placements for students in public or nonprofit private health agencies or organizations;
(2) will involve faculty members and students in collaborative projects to enhance public health services to medically underserved communities;
(3) will specifically designate a geographic area or medically underserved population to be served by the center that shall be in a location removed from the main location of the teaching facility of the school that is participating in the program with such center; and
(4) will assess the health personnel needs of the area to be served by the center and assist in the planning and development of training programs to meet such needs.
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**(a) Grants** The Secretary may make grants or contracts under this section to help entities fund authorized activities under an application approved under subsection (c).
**(b) Use of amounts**
(1) **In general** — Amounts provided under subsection (a) shall be used by the recipients to fund interdisciplinary training projects designed to—
(A) use innovative or evidence-based methods to train health care practitioners to provide services in rural areas;
(B) demonstrate and evaluate innovative interdisciplinary methods and models designed to provide access to cost-effective comprehensive health care;
(C) deliver health care services to individuals residing in rural areas;
(D) enhance the amount of relevant research conducted concerning health care issues in rural areas; and
(E) increase the recruitment and retention of health care practitioners from rural areas and make rural practice a more attractive career choice for health care practitioners.
(2) **Methods** — A recipient of funds under subsection (a) may use various methods in carrying out the projects described in paragraph (1), including—
(A) the distribution of stipends to students of eligible applicants;
(B) the establishment of a post-doctoral fellowship program;
(C) the training of faculty in the economic and logistical problems confronting rural health care delivery systems; or
(D) the purchase or rental of transportation and telecommunication equipment where the need for such equipment due to unique characteristics of the rural area is demonstrated by the recipient.
(3) **Administration**
(A) *In general* — An applicant shall not use more than 10 percent of the funds made available to such applicant under subsection (a) for administrative expenses.
(B) *Training* — Not
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**(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 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;
(2) encourage entities providing graduate medical education to conduct activities to voluntarily achieve the recommendations of the Council under paragraph (1)(E);
(3) develop, publish, and implement performance measures for
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 295a
address adult learning requirements and in-
crease knowledge and skills related to com-
munity-based cultural diversity in public
health education.
(2) Severe shortage disciplines
Amounts provided under grants or contracts
under this section may be used for the oper-
ation
of
programs
designed
to
award
traineeships to students in accredited schools
of public health who enter educational pro-
grams in fields where there is a severe short-
age of public health professionals, including
epidemiology,
biostatistics,
environmental
health, toxicology, public health nursing, nu-
trition, preventive medicine, maternal and
child health, and behavioral and mental
health professions.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 765, as added
Pub. L. 105–392, title I, § 105, Nov. 13, 1998, 112
Stat. 3553; amended Pub. L. 111–148, title V,
§ 5206(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 611.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 295, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII,
§ 781, as added Pub. L. 102–408, title I, § 102, Oct. 13, 1992,
106 Stat. 2055; amended Pub. L. 105–12, § 12(b), Apr. 30,
1997, 111 Stat. 29, authorized grants and contracts for
research on certain health professions issues, prior to
repeal by Pub. L. 105–392, title I, § 106(a)(1), Nov. 13, 1998,
112 Stat. 3557.
Another prior section 295, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373,
title VII, § 761, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91–696,
§ 101, 84 Stat. 2080–1; amended Oct. 17, 1979, Pub. L. 96–88,
title III, § 301(a)(1), title V, § 507, 93 Stat. 677, 692, pro-
vided Congressional declaration of purpose for former
part D of this subchapter, prior to repeal by Pub. L.
99–129, title II, § 220(c), Oct. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 544.
Another prior section 295,
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