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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HB 1345

        By Representative Wilson






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to medical education; expanding

  3         the Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS) to

  4         include Florida Agricultural and Mechanical

  5         University, which shall offer the first year of

  6         medical education for students in the program;

  7         specifying the minimum number of students to be

  8         accepted into the program; providing for

  9         students to transfer to certain other

10         universities upon completion of the first year

11         of study; providing for the program to recruit

12         students to serve areas in the state that lack

13         sufficient medical services; providing an

14         appropriation; providing an effective date.

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16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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18         Section 1.  Program in medical sciences.--

19         (1)  The Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS) at Florida

20  State University, the University of Florida, and the

21  University of South Florida is expanded to include Florida

22  Agricultural and Mechanical University, which shall provide

23  the first year of medical education for students who are

24  accepted into the program. The primary focus of the PIMS

25  program at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is

26  to identify and recruit talented members of minority groups

27  who have demonstrated an interest in serving the health-care

28  needs of persons in rural communities and underserved

29  inner-urban areas of the state and who select primary care as

30  their primary area of practice.

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  1         (2)  The Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS) at Florida

  2  Agricultural and Mechanical University shall provide the first

  3  year of medical education for at least 90 students, with 30

  4  students coming from each of the affiliated universities. If

  5  funding is provided for additional students, the program shall

  6  attempt to recruit an equal number of students from each of

  7  the three participating universities. Upon successful

  8  completion of the first year of medical school at Florida

  9  Agricultural and Mechanical University, a student in the

10  program shall transfer to a medical education program at

11  Florida State University, the University of Florida, or the

12  University of South Florida, as appropriate.

13         (3)  The program is open to all undergraduate and

14  postbaccalaureate students who are state residents. Particular

15  consideration shall be given to nontraditional students and

16  students who reside in medically underserved communities in

17  the state. To develop a base of qualified potential medical

18  school candidates from underrepresented groups, Florida

19  Agricultural and Mechanical University shall coordinate with

20  the undergraduate premedical and science recruitment efforts

21  that are part of the Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS). In

22  addition, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University shall

23  make every effort, through recruitment and retention, to

24  employ for the first-year medical program a faculty and

25  support staff that is representative of the heterogeneous

26  nature of the state's population.

27         Section 2.  The sum of $1 million is appropriated from

28  the General Revenue Fund to Florida Agricultural and

29  Mechanical University for the purposes of paying salaries and

30  other administrative expenses necessary to carry out the

31  provisions of this act during the 2001-2002 fiscal year.

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  1         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  2  law.

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  5                          SENATE SUMMARY

  6    Provides for the Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS) to be
      expanded so that medical students may complete their
  7    first year of medical training at Florida Agricultural
      and Mechanical University. Requires that the program
  8    offer training for 90 students and for additional
      students if funding is provided. Requires that a student
  9    transfer to another university following completion of
      the first year of medical study. Requires that the
10    program attempt to recruit representatives of minorities
      who are interested in serving underserved areas of the
11    state as primary care physicians.

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