By: Branch, S. Davis of Harris H.B. No. 2908

(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2011; April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to providing graduate medical education positions for Texas medical school graduates.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 61.051, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-4) to read as follows:

(a-4) The board shall include in the five-year master plan developed under Subsection (a-1) an assessment of the adequacy of opportunities for graduates of medical schools in this state to enter graduate medical education in this state. The assessment must:

(1) compare the number of first-year graduate medical education positions available annually with the number of medical school graduates;

(2) include a statistical analysis of recent trends in and projections of the number of medical school graduates and first-year graduate medical education positions in this state;

(3) develop methods and strategies for achieving a ratio for the number of first-year graduate medical education positions to the number of medical school graduates in this state of at least 1.1 to 1;

(4) evaluate current and projected physician workforce needs of this state, by total number and by specialty, in the development of additional first-year graduate medical education positions; and

(5) examine whether this state should ensure that a first-year graduate medical education position is created in this state for each new medical student position established by a medical and dental unit.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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