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Appropriation,

PUBLIC LAW 92-157-NOV. 18, 1971

[85 STAT.

use that the school will make of existing facilities (including Federal medical or dental facilities), it will be able to accelerate the date on which it will begin its teaching program. "(4) For purposes of this subsection, any school of medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry shall be considered a new school for any year if such year is the year preceding the first year in which such school has students enrolled, such first year, and the next two years. "(5) Payments under grants under this subsection may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and at such intervals and on such conditions, as the Secretary finds necessary. »^g^ There is authorized to be appropriated to make grants under this subsection not to exceed $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and a like amount for each of the next two fiscal years. Sums appropriated under this paragraph shall remain available until expended. " (b)(1) The Secretary shall make a grant to any public or nonprofit private two-year school of medicine (or any school accredited as such a two-year school) which intends to become a school accredited to grant the degree of doctor of medicine. The amount of the grant to a school under this subsection shall be equal to the product of $50,000 and the number of third-year students which the Secretary determines will be initially enrolled in such school. Upon application by the school, the Secretary shall (if the school so requests) make a grant to such school for expenditure in the year preceding the initial enrollment of third-year students in such school, or thereafter. No school may receive more than one grant under this subsection. "(2) No grant may be made under this subsection unless an application therefor has been submitted before July 1, 1974, and the school enrolls third-year students not later than the school year beginning in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975. The Secretary may not approve an application for a grant under this subsection unless he determines it contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that the school for which the application is made will be affiliated with an accredited hospital in the fiscal year for which such grant is made. Payments under grants under this subsection may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and at such intervals and on such conditions, as the Secretary finds necessary. uSPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

"SEC. 772. (a) The Secretary may make grants to assist schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry in meeting the costs of special projects to— " (1) effect significant improvements in the curriculums of any such schools (including projects to shorten the length of time required for training in such schools), with particular emphasis, in the case of schools of medicine or osteopathy, upon the establishment of new, or expansion of existing, programs for training in family medicine; "(2) develop programs for cooperative interdisciplinary training among schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, nursing, public health, and allied health, including projects for training in the use of the team approach to the delivery of health services; "(3) develop and operate training programs, and train, for new roles, types, or levels of health personnel, including programs for the training of physicians' assistants and other health professions' assistants; "(4) plan, develop, or establish new programs, or innovative modifications of existing programs, of education in such health

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