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‘‘(D) highlight individuals in the commu-
nity that are presently practicing as phar-
macists to recruit new pharmacists; and
‘‘(E) provide any other information to re-
cruit individuals for the pharmacist profession.
‘‘(3) METHOD.—The campaigns described in
subsection (a) shall be broadcast on television or
radio, placed in newspapers as advertisements, or
posted on billboards or the Internet, in a manner in-
tended to reach as wide and diverse an audience as
possible.
‘‘SEC. 772. DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish a
demonstration project to enhance the participation of indi-
viduals who are pharmacists in the National Health Service
Corps Loan Repayment Program described in section 338B.
‘‘(b) SERVICES.—Services that may be provided by
pharmacists pursuant to the demonstration project estab-
lished under this section include medication therapy man-
agement services to assure that medications are used appro-
priately by patients, to enhance patients’ understanding of
the appropriate use of medications, to increase patients’ ad-
herence to prescription medication regimens, to reduce the
risk of adverse events associated with medications, and to
reduce the need for other costly medical services through bet-
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ter management of medication therapy. Such services may
include case management, disease management, drug ther-
apy management, patient training and education, coun-
seling, drug therapy problem resolution, medication admin-
istration, the provision of special packaging, or other serv-
ices that enhance the use of prescription medications.
‘‘(c) PROCEDURE.—The Secretary may not provide as-
sistance to an individual under this section unless the indi-
vidual agrees to comply with all requirements described in
sections 338B and 338D.
‘‘(d) LIMITATIONS.—The demonstration project de-
scribed in this section shall provide for the participation
of—
‘‘(1) individuals to provide services in rural and
urban areas; and
‘‘(2) enough individuals to allow the Secretary to
properly analyze the effectiveness of such project.
‘‘(e) DESIGNATIONS.—The demonstration project de-
scribed in this section, and any pharmacists who are se-
lected to participate in such project, shall not be considered
by the Secretary in the designation of a health professional
shortage area under section 332 during fiscal years 2003
through 2005.
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‘‘(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This section shall not
be construed to require any State to participate in the
project described in this section.
‘‘(g) REPORT.—The Secretary shall prepare and sub-
mit a report on the project to—
‘‘(1) the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions of the Senate;
‘‘(2) the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education of the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate;
‘‘(3) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of
the House of Representatives; and
‘‘(4) the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education of the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
‘‘SEC. 773. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
‘‘(a) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.—The Secretary may
make awards of grants or contracts to qualifying schools
of pharmacy for the purpose of assisting such schools in
acquiring and installing computer-based systems to provide
pharmaceutical education. Education provided through
such systems may be graduate education, professional edu-
cation, or continuing education. The computer-based sys-
tems may be designed to provide on-site education, or edu-
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cation at remote sites (commonly referred to as distance
learning), or both.
‘‘(b) QUALIFYING SCHOOL OF PHARMACY.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘qualifying school of phar-
macy’ means a school of pharmacy (as defined in section
799B) that requires students to serve in a clinical rotation
in which pharmacist services are part of the curriculum.
‘‘SEC. 774. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘For the purpose of carrying out this subpart, there
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of the fiscal years 2003 through 2006.’’.
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