§1215.2. Departments of family medicine
A. The state schools of medicine, nursing schools, and schools of allied health professions shall cooperate, in collaboration with the Louisiana Area Health Education Center, to improve and expand programs for rural or other health manpower shortage areas.
B. The state schools of medicine shall:
(1) Encourage and coordinate the creation or expansion of a rural or other health manpower shortage preceptor program among such medical schools, teaching hospitals, nursing schools, and schools of allied health professions.
(2) Encourage family practice residency programs to provide an opportunity for residents to have at least a one-month rotation through a rural or other health manpower shortage setting.
(3) Encourage the development of relief service programs for rural or other health manpower shortage area physicians and allied health personnel to facilitate access to continuing medical education.
(4) Encourage the development of clerkships in family medicine.
(5) Encourage cooperation with the Louisiana Area Health Education Center through its regional centers in the above activities.
(6) Report to the legislature on its efforts to fulfill the intent of this Part to achieve a goal of increasing the number of first-year primary care residents in this state.
(7) Encourage and promote the development of admissions policies that require each first-year class to include at least fifty percent of its students from health manpower shortage areas.
Acts 1990, No. 1052, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1299.152 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.
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