§ 57.1805 - Program requirements.

(a) The Secretary will award grants to meet the cost of carrying out one or more of the following five purposes:

(1) To identify individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds for education in the health or allied health professions through the development and application of criteria for this purpose, and to recruit these individuals through motivational activities which may involve dissemination of information, exposure to role models and health facilities, and counseling.

(2) To provide individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, for a period prior to their entry into a regular course of education of such a school, preliminary education designed to assist them to complete successfully such regular course of education in a health professions school or school of allied health, or to refer them to institutions which provide it. Preliminary education in this context is education designed to expand the academic ability of disadvantaged students during their preprofessional training. It may not include classes already taught as part of the regular course of education leading to a high school diploma or undergraduate degree. It may not be offered to students before they complete the junior year of high school.

(3) To provide information to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds about financial aid available to students in health professions schools, or schools of allied health, or schools and entities which provide training necessary to qualify for enrollment in health professions schools or schools of allied health.

(4) To facilitate the entry of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds into health professions schools or schools of allied health by engaging in activities which assist them to compete for admission, such as instruction designed to improve their performance on admission tests, and by assisting admission committees with the evaluation of disadvantaged applicants.

(5) To provide counseling or other retention services, such as tutorial assistance and assistance in adjusting to the environment of the school, which are designed to help individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who are enrolled in health professions schools or schools of allied health to complete this education.

(b) The grantee must carry out at least two of the five purposes, even if grant funds are requested or awarded for only one of them.

(c) The grantee must evaluate its program based on the plan provided in the grant application.

(d) Grantees which: (1) Are schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, allied health, chiropractic, podiatric medicine, and public and private nonprofit schools that offer graduate programs in clinical psychology; and

(2) Have a proportionate enrollment of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds that is less than 200 percent of the national average percentage of such individuals in all schools of each health professions discipline must assure the Secretary that during a period of 3 years, commencing on the date of the award of the grant, they will increase their first-year enrollment of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds by at least 20 percent over enrollments in the base year of 1987.