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(a) If the Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board determines that funds appropriated under this subchapter are available after all eligible planning grant applications under §§ 6-82-2002 and 6-82-2003 have been funded, the board shall award planning grants from excess funds to support medical residents who:
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(1) Have completed at least three (3) years of residency; and
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(2) Are enrolled in a residency program in a field in which this state has less than eighty percent (80%) of the national average of physicians per one hundred thousand (100,000) people, as determined by the board.
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(b) The board shall determine the following with respect to planning grants under this section:
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(1) The amount of a planning grant awarded under this section;
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(2) The number of planning grants awarded under this section; and
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(3) The residency fields in which recipients of planning grants under this section work.
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(c) A planning grant under this section shall be used to support the direct resident costs to the graduate medical education program, including without limitation stipends and benefits.
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(d) The board shall distribute a planning grant amount for a residency position under this section only upon receiving verification that the applicable residency position has been filled.
