N.Y. PBH Law § 902

§ 902. Grants for primary care undergraduate medical education. 1.\nThe commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education,\nis authorized, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision\nnineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this chapter, to\nmake grants to medical schools located in New York state in order to\nenhance the study of primary care, to increase the opportunities for\nundergraduate medical education in primary care at community-based sites\nand encourage the training of primary care physicians.\n 2. Grant proceeds may be used for faculty development; costs incurred\nteaching medical students at community-based sites, including, but not\nlimited to, personnel, administration, and student-related expenses;\nexpansion or development of programs that train primary care physicians;\nand other innovative programs designed to increase the number of medical\nstudents choosing primary care.\n 3. Such grants shall be awarded on a competitive basis in amounts not\nto exceed five hundred thousand dollars through a request for\napplication process. In making awards, consideration shall be given to\napplicants who:\n (a) apply in collaboration with community-based providers;\n (b) make complementary efforts to enhance their curriculum in primary\ncare;\n (c) make complementary efforts to recruit qualified faculty in primary\ncare education;\n (d) make complementary efforts to reduce the percentage of students\ngraduating in non-primary care specialties; and\n (e) make complementary efforts to match such award from funds raised\nthrough non-public sources.\n 4. The intent of this program is to augment or increase primary care\nundergraduate medical training. Grant funding shall not be used to\noffset existing expenditures that the medical school has obligated or\nintends to obligate for primary care training programs.\n