By: Branch, S. Davis of Harris H.B. No. 2908
(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2011;
April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing graduate medical education positions for
Texas medical school graduates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.051, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-4) to read as follows:
(a-4) The board shall include in the five-year master plan
developed under Subsection (a-1) an assessment of the adequacy of
opportunities for graduates of medical schools in this state to
enter graduate medical education in this state. The assessment
must:
(1) compare the number of first-year graduate medical
education positions available annually with the number of medical
school graduates;
(2) include a statistical analysis of recent trends in
and projections of the number of medical school graduates and
first-year graduate medical education positions in this state;
(3) develop methods and strategies for achieving a
ratio for the number of first-year graduate medical education
positions to the number of medical school graduates in this state of
at least 1.1 to 1;
(4) evaluate current and projected physician
workforce needs of this state, by total number and by specialty, in
the development of additional first-year graduate medical
education positions; and
(5) examine whether this state should ensure that a
first-year graduate medical education position is created in this
state for each new medical student position established by a
medical and dental unit.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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