Rule 195-10-.01. General Definitions
- (1) "Preventive Medicine Residency Program" is a one or two-year training program after graduation from medical school designed to provide the experience required to train a preventive medicine physician as delineated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Essentials for Residency Programs in Preventive Medicine.
- (2) "Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)" is the body established to accredit residency programs.
- (3) "Institutional, Program and Fellowship Requirements" of the ACGME details the institutional and program requirements for each of the medical specialties and subspecialties.
- (4) "Qualified Hospital" means a hospital, or associated hospitals, which meet(s) the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements for a critical mass and mix of hospital patients, medical staff, facilities, and financial support adequate to sustain a quality program of preventive medicine resident training.
- (5) "Underserved Areas" are those geographic areas of the state in which the Board determines there is a shortage of preventive medicine physicians.
- (6) "Resident" means an individual at any level in an ACGME-accredited Graduate Medical Education Program, including subspecialty programs.
- (7) "Capitation" means Board funding of designated Preventive Medicine Residency Training Programs based upon a fixed dollar amount per resident times the number of residents in training, with the fixed dollar amount being set by the total state appropriation available for this purpose.
- (8) "Board Programs" means those medical education activities supported by the Board and/or funded by the General Assembly to address Georgia's physician workforce needs.
Authority: O.C.G.A. §49-10.
History. Original Rule entitled "General Definitions" adopted. F. Jan. 10, 2005; eff. Jan. 30, 2005.
Repealed: New Rule of same title adopted. F. Nov. 15, 2018; eff. Dec. 5, 2018.
Repealed: New Rule of the same title adopted. F. Dec. 11, 2019; eff. Dec. 31, 2019.