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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 913

Scholarship Board conditioned that after he completes the
family practice residency, he will engage in family practice
in an area determined to be an area of need under subsection
(g) of this section for a period of at least 1 year.

(e)  (1) Each year, 20 family practice residencies
shall be awarded.

(2) Each family practice residency:

(i) Is for 3 years in the amount of
$15,000 a year;

(ii) May be used for salary, housing, and
fringe benefits for the resident; and

(iii) Shall be paid by the State
Scholarship Board directly to the hospital where the
resident is training.

(f) (1) Each year, the State Scholarship Board shall
announce the availability and conditions of these family
practice residencies at medical schools in and outside this
State.

(2)  Each applicant for a residency shall submit
an application provided by the State Scholarship Board that
demonstrates his merit and eligibility.

(3)  The State Scholarship Board shall award the
residencies to the recipients. If a recipient does not
accept the residency, the Board shall reaward it.

(g) (1) A committee composed of the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene, a designated representative of
the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and the
chairmen of the accredited residency programs in family
practice shall designate as areas of need those areas in
this State that have an acute need for physicians in family
practice.

(2) This committee shall submit to the General
Assembly no later than October 1 of each year a report on
its progress in supplying family practice doctors for this
State.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July X, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.