§ 57.4002 - Definitions.

Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.

Allied health professional means a health professional who has received a certificate, an associate's degree, a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, a doctoral degree, or postbaccalaureate training, in a science relating to health care and meets the requirements as established in section 799(5) of the Act.

Budget period means the interval of time into which the project period is divided for budgetary and reporting purposes, as specified in the grant award document.

Continuing education means structured educational programs for practicing health professionals and allied health professionals for the purpose of improving the knowledge and skills in geriatrics of such practitioners with respect to treatment of the health problems of elderly individuals.

Geriatrics is the total health and social care of the elderly.

Geriatric Medicine means the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment of illness and disability as required by the distinct needs of the elderly.

Graduate program in clinical social work and graduate program in marriage and family therapy means an accredited graduate program as defined in section 799(1)(C) of the Act.

Graduate program in mental health practice means a graduate program in clinical psychology, clinical social work, or marriage and family therapy (section 799(1)(D) of the Act).

Health professional means, for purposes of this subpart, any allopathic or osteopathic physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, pharmacist, professional nurse (as defined in § 57.2502), and nurse practitioner (as defined in § 57.2402), physician assistant, chiropractor, clinical psychologist, health administrator, or allied health professional.

Health professions schools means any school of medicine, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, optometry, podiatric medicine, veterinary medicine, public health, chiropractic, graduate programs in health administration, or graduate programs in clinical psychology, as defined in section 799(1) (A), (B), (C), and (D) of the Act and as accredited in section 799(1)(E) 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.

Program for the training of physician assistants means any educational programs as defined in section 799(3) of the Act.

Project director means an individual designated by the grantee in the grant application and approved by the Secretary to direct the project being supported under this subpart.

Project period means the total time for which support for a project has been approved including any extensions of the project.

School of allied health means a public or private nonprofit junior college, college, university or hospital-based educational entity which provides or is accredited to provide a program of education to enable individuals to become allied health professionals or to provide additional training for allied health professionals and which meets the criteria set forth in section 799(4) of the Act.

School of nursing means a collegiate, associate degree, or diploma school of nursing in a State (section 853(2) of the Act).

Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human Services 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.

Training and retraining of faculty means a program to train and retrain faculty to provide geriatric instruction which is not a 1-year retraining program for faculty in schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine in geriatrics or a 1-year or 2-year internal medicine or family medicine fellowship program as identified in section 777(3)(A) and (B) of the Act.