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Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-82-2004. Priority of planning grants--Adjustment of amounts

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) If the Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board determines that the number of first-year residency positions proposed by eligible applicants under § 6-82-2003 exceeds the amount of funding appropriated for the planning grants under this subchapter, the board:

(1) May give priority for up to fifty percent (50%) of the funded first-year residency positions to be in:

(A) Primary care; or

(B) 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 based on the Association of American Medical Colleges State Physician Workforce Data Report; and

(2) Shall not reduce planning grant amounts awarded for each resident position, but may proportionately reduce the number of positions funded for each graduate medical education program.

(b) If the board determines that, based on the applications it has received for planning grants under § 6-82-2003, the entire appropriation for planning grants under this subchapter shall not be awarded for a particular year, the board may transfer and use the funds appropriated to award planning grants under § 6-82-2002.

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