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 112 STAT. 3526 PUBLIC LAW 105-392—NOV. 13, 1998 "(3) to improve the capacity of such school to train, recruit, and retain under-represented minority faculty including the payment of such stipends and fellowships as the Secretary may determine appropriate; "(4) to carry out activities to improve the information resources, clinical education, curricula and cultural competence of the graduates of the school, as it relates to minority health issues; "(5) to facilitate faculty and student research on health issues particularly affecting under-represented minority groups, including research on issues relating to the delivery of health care; "(6) to carry out a program to train students of the school in providing health services to a significant number of underrepresented minority individuals through training provided to such students at community-based health facilities that— "(A) provide such health services; and "(B) are located at a site remote from the main site of the teaching facilities of the school; and "(7) to provide stipends as the Secretary determines appropriate, in amounts as the Secretary determines appropriate. "(c) CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.— " (1) DESIGNATED SCHOOLS.^ " (A) IN GENERAL.— The designated health professions schools referred to in subsection (a) are such schools that meet each of the conditions specified in subparagraphs (B) and (C), and that— "(i) meet each of the conditions specified in paragraph (2)(A); "(ii) meet each of the conditions specified in paragraph (3); "(iii) meet each of the conditions specified in paragraph (4); or "(iv) meet each of the conditions specified in paragraph (5). "(B) GENERAL CONDITIONS.—The conditions specified in this subparagraph are that a designated health professions school— "(i) has a significant number of under-represented minority individuals enrolled in the school, including individuals accepted for enrollment in the school; "(ii) has been effective in assisting under-represented minority students of the school to complete the program of education and receive the degree involved; "(iii) has been effective in recruiting under-represented minority individuals to enroll in and graduate from the school, including providing scholarships and other financial assistance to such individuals and encouraging under-represented minority students from all levels of the educational pipeline to pursue health professions careers; and "(iv) has made significant recruitment efforts to increase the number of under-represented minority individuals serving in faculty or administrative positions at the school.

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