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PUBLIC LAW 92-157-NOV. 18, 1971

[85 STAT.

who are participants in any such program, and who plan to specialize or work in the practice of family medicine; and "(3) to plan, develop, and operate, or participate in, other approved training programs in the field of family medicine. "GRANTS FOR SUPPORT or POSTGRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS

Appropriation.

77 Stat. 165.

"SEC. 768. (a) ThcTc are authorized to be appropriated $7,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for grants under subsection (b). " (b)(1) The Secretary shall make annual grants in accordance with this section to— " (A) public or nonprofit private schools of medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry, which are accredited as provided in section 721(b)(1), and which have approved applications, and " (B) public or nonprofit private hospitals which are not affiliated with an accredited school of medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry, and which have approved applications, to assist in meeting the educational costs of the first three years of fulltime approved graduate training programs in the area of primary care or in any other area of health care (designated under subsection (c)(3)(B)) in which there is a shortage of qualified physicians or dentists. "(2) The amount of a grant under this subsection for any fiscal year to any school or hospital shall be equal to $3,000 for each physician or dentist enrolled in a graduate training program (A) described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, and (B) m the case of a grant to a school, conducted in clinical facilities of such schools or with which such school has a written agreement of affiliation, or, in the case of a grant to a hospital, conducted in such hospital; except that if the total of the grants to be made under this subsection for any fiscal year to schools and hospitals with approved applications exceeds the amounts appropriated under subsection (a) for such grants, the amount of the grant for that fiscal year to each such school or hospital shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount determined for the school or hospital for that fiscal year under the preceding sentence as the total of the amounts appropriated under subsection (a) for that year bears to the amount required to make grants to each school in accordance with such sentence. "(3) For purposes of paragraph (2), the Secretary shall— " (A) in the case of a grant in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, count only the number of first-year physicians and dentists enrolled in graduate training programs described in paragraph (1), and " (B) in the case of a grant in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, count only the number of first- and second-year physicians and dentists enrolled in graduate training programs described in paragraph (1). "(c)(1) The Secretary may from time to time set dates (not earlier than the fiscal year preceding the year for which a grant is sought) by which applicants for grants under subsection (b) for any fiscal year must be filed. " (2) A grant under subsection (b) may be made only if the application therefor— " (A) is approved by the Secretary upon his determination that the applicant meets the eligibility conditions set forth in paragraph (1) of such subsection; " (B) contains a specific program or programs which such applicant has undertaken to encourage physicians and dentists to enroll

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