HF 2052 (LSB 5768YH (3) 88)

HOUSE FILE 2052

BY  FRY

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the medical residency training state matching grants program rural rotation requirement.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 135.176, subsection 2, paragraph g, Code 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   g.  A requirement that the residency program offer persons to whom a primary care, including psychiatry, residency position is awarded, the opportunity to participate in a rural rotation to expose the resident to the rural areas of the state.  For the purposes of this paragraph, “primary care” shall include psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. 
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the medical residency training state matching grants program. 
   Under current law, the program requires that a residency program offer persons to whom a primary care residency position is awarded the opportunity to participate in a rural rotation to expose the resident to the rural areas of the state. Under current law, primary care specifically includes the practice area of psychiatry. Under the bill, the specified primary care practice areas are expanded to also include obstetrics, gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine.