§ 57.3102 - Definitions.

For purposes of this subpart:

Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.

Approved residency training program or program is the entirety or that part of a residency training program which is fully or provisionally accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or approved by the American Osteopathic Association and which emphasizes the training of residents for the practice of general internal medicine or general pediatrics.

Faculty development program means a systematic training program to increase faculty competence in teaching skills and in other areas related to academic responsibility.

Health professional shortage area means an area designated under section 332 of the Act.

Nonprofit refers to the status of an entity which is a corporation or association, or is owned and operated by one or more corporations or associations, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

Nurse practitioner means a nurse practitioner as defined in 42 CFR 57.2402.

Practice of general internal medicine or general pediatrics means a practice which is limited to adult or child and adolescent medicine respectively, and in which the physician:

(1) Serves as physician of first contact with the patient and provides a timely means of entry into the health care system;

(2) Evaluates the patient's health needs, provides personal health care and refers the patient, if indicated, to appropriate sources of health care while preserving the continuity of care;

(3) Assumes with the patient responsibility for the patient's longitudinal and comprehensive (including preventive and psychosocial) health care and acts as coordinator of the provision of health services to the patient;

(4) Considers the patient's health care within the context of his or her environment including the community and family or comparable social units; and

(5) Where applicable, plans and shares the above functions with other physicians.

Project director means a fully licensed physician on the faculty of the grantee, designated by the grantee in the grant application and approved by the Secretary to direct the project being supported under this subpart.

School of medicine and osteopathic medicine means a public or private nonprofit school which provides training leading respectively to a degree of doctor of medicine or to a degree of doctor of osteopathic medicine and which is accredited as provided in section 799(1)(E) of the Act.

Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any other officer or employee of the Department to whom the authority involved has been delegated.

State means, in addition to the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Trainee means an allopathic or osteopathic general internist or general pediatrician participating in a faculty development training program supported by a grant under section 748 and receiving stipend support for such grant.