Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 1.djvu/1094

 94 STAT. 1044

Report to Congress.

Regulations. 38 USC 4143.

Deferral.

PUBLIC LAW 96-330—AUG. 26, 1980

Schedule made effective in the fiscal year in which such school year ends. "(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, participants in the Scholarship Program shall not be considered to be employees of the Federal Government and shall not be counted against any employment ceiling affecting the Department of Medicine and Surgery while they are undergoing a course of training prior to engaging in deferred internship, residency, or other advanced clinical training. "(h) The Administrator shall report to Congress not later than March 1 of each year— "(1) the number of students receiving scholarships under the Scholarship Program and the number of students enrolled in each type of health profession training; "(2) the educational institutions providing such training; "(3) the number of applications filed, by health profession category, under this section during the school year beginning in such year and the total number of such applications so filed for all years in which the Scholarship Program has been in existence; "(4) the number of scholarships accepted, by health profession category, during such school year and the number, by health profession category, which were offered and not accepted, together with a summary of the reasons that such scholarships were not accepted; and "(5) the amount of tuition and other expenses paid, by health profession category, in the aggregate and at each educational institution for the school year beginning in such year and for prior school years. "(i) The Administrator shall prescribe regulations to carry out the Scholarship Program. "§4143. Obligated service "(a) Each participant in the Scholarship Program shall provide service in the full-time clinical practice of such participant's profession or in another health-care position, in an assignment or location as determined by the Administrator, as a full-time employee of the Veterans' Administration for the period of obligated service provided in the contract of such participant entered into under section 4142 of this title. "(b)(1) Not later than 60 days prior to the date described in paragraph (3) of this subsection with respect to a participant in the Scholarship Program, the Administrator shall notify the participant of the date described in such paragraph for the beginning of such participant's period of obligated service. "(2) The Administrator shall appoint each participant in the Department of Medicine and Surgery as soon as possible after the date described in paragraph (3) of this subsection. "(3)(A)(i) With respect to a participant receiving a degree from a school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, or podiatry, the date for the beginning of the participant's period of obligated service is the date upon which the participant becomes licensed to practice medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, or podiatry, as the case may be, in a State, except that the Administrator may, at the request of such participant, defer such date until the end of the period of time required for the participant to complete an internship or residency or other advanced clinical training. If the participant requests such a deferral, the Administrator shall notify the participant that such

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