Public Health Service Act Medical Education Amendments of 1985

Summary

Public Health Service Act Medical Education Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a registry of teaching hospitals. Requires such hospitals to enter into a cooperative agreement with: (1) a school of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education; or (2) a school of osteopathy accredited by the Bureau of Professional Education of the American Osteopathic Association. Provides that the cooperative agreement shall include provisions requiring such hospitals to comply with regulations establishing a minimum percentage of graduate medical education positions in primary care specialties. Directs the Council on Graduate Medical Education (established by this Act) to recommend to the Secretary such minimum percentage for a four-fiscal-year period. Requires the Secretary to establish by regulation the minimum percentage recommended by the Council. Requires the establishment of such minimum percentages every four years. Specifies the types of positions which are considered primary care specialties (in internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and obstetrics/gynecology). Excludes specified positions. Requires that at least 75 percent of all graduate medical education positions in each specialty area of a registered hospital be held by graduates of: (1) schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education; or (2) schools of osteopathy accredited by the Bureau of Professional Education of the American Osteopathic Association. Sets conditions for positions for U.S. or alien graduates of foreign medical schools. States that hospitals which do not register with the Secretary and comply with the provisions of this Act shall not be eligible to receive Federal financial assistance to support graduate medical education programs for such fiscal year. Establishes a Council on Graduate Medical Education to advise the Secretary on current and future needs for physicians to practice in primary care specialties.

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 26 July 1985

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 23 May 1985

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