California Business and Professions Code

§ 3537.10

BPC § 3537.10 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 2 · Ch. 7.7 · Art. 7.5

Statute text

(a)Subject to the other provisions of this article, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, hereafter in this article referred to as the department, shall coordinate the establishment of an international medical graduate physician assistant training program, to be conducted at an appropriate educational institution or institutions. The goal of the program shall be to place as many international medical graduate physician assistants in medically underserved areas as possible in order to provide greater access to care for the growing population of medically indigent and underserved. The method for accomplishing this goal shall be to train foreign medical graduates to become licensed as physician assistants at no cost to the participants in return for a commitment from the participants to serve full time in underserved areas for a four-year period.

(b)By February 1, 1994, or one month after federal funds to implement this article become available, whichever occurs later, the department shall establish a training program advisory task force. The task force shall be comprised of representatives from all of the following groups:

(1)Physician assistant program directors.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 511, Sec. 17. (SB 1495) Effective January 1, 2023.