Virginia Administrative Code › Title 12 - HEALTH › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter 530 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM › Part II - Definitions › Section 12VAC5-530-40 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
Unless the context clearly indicates a contrary
					 interpretation, the words and terms used in this chapter shall have the
					 following meanings:
"Accredited residency" means a graduate medical education
					 program in family practice medicine, general internal medicine, pediatric
					 medicine or obstetrics and gynecology accredited by the Liaison Committee on
					 Graduate Medical Education.
"Approved by the medical school that nominated him for the
					 scholarship" means that medical school affirms that the graduate has accepted
					 placement in an accredited residency or internship at a hospital or institution
					 located in Virginia, or affirms that such placement has been accepted in a
					 program not located in Virginia due to such placement through the match.
"Board" or "Board of Health" means the State Board of
					 Health.
"Commissioner" means the State Health Commissioner.
"Designated state facility" means a facility operated by
					 the Virginia Departments of Corrections, Youth and Family Services, or Mental
					 Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services.
"First year resident" means a graduate of a participating
					 medical school who has been accepted by an accredited primary care residency
					 program approved by the medical school that nominated him for the
					 scholarship.
"Interest at the prevailing bank rate for unsecured debt"
					 means the prime lending rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on the
					 last day of the month in which the decision to repay is communicated to the
					 commissioner by the recipient, plus two percentage points.
"The match" means the National Resident Matching Program, a
					 nationwide system by which medical school graduates are placed in graduate
					 medical education programs by mutual agreement.
"Medically underserved area" means a geographic area in
					 Virginia designated by the State Board of Health in accordance with the rules
					 and regulations for the identification of medically underserved areas.
"Participating medical school" means the Eastern Virginia
					 Medical School of the Medical College of Hampton Roads, or the Medical College
					 of Virginia of the Virginia Commonwealth University, or the School of Medicine
					 of the University of Virginia, or the James H. Quillen College of Medicine of
					 East Tennessee State University.
"Penalty" means an amount of money equal to two times the
					 amount of all monetary scholarship awards paid to the scholarship
					 recipient.
"Practice" means the practice of medicine by a recipient in
					 one of the designated primary care specialties in a specific geographic area
					 determined to be fulfillment of the recipient's scholarship obligation.
"Primary care" means the specialties of family practice
					 medicine, general internal medicine, pediatric medicine, or obstetrics and
					 gynecology.
"Recipient" or "scholarship recipient" means an eligible
					 medical student or graduate medical student who enters into a contract with the
					 commissioner and receives one or more scholarship awards via the Virginia
					 Medical Scholarship Program.
"Restitution" means the amount of monetary reimbursement,
					 including repayment of all pertinent scholarship awards plus penalty and
					 applicable interest as set forth in this chapter, that will be owed to the
					 Commonwealth of Virginia by a scholarship recipient who is in default of his
					 contractual obligation as provided for in this chapter.
"Southwest Virginia" means those cities and counties in
					 Virginia that are located in Planning Districts 1, 2, and 3; they include Bland
					 County, City of Bristol, Buchanan County, Carroll County, Dickenson County,
					 City of Galax, Grayson County, Lee County, City of Norton, Russell County,
					 Scott County, Smyth County, Tazewell County, Washington County, Wise County,
					 and Wythe County.
"Virginia medical scholarship" means an award of an amount
					 specified by the General Assembly in the Appropriations Act made to a student
					 enrolled in a participating medical school or to a graduate student of a
					 participating medical school pursuing the first year of graduate training at a
					 hospital or institution approved by the participating medical school that
					 nominated him for the scholarship and for which the medical student or graduate
					 medical student entered a contractual obligation to repay.
Statutory Authority
§§ 32.1-12, 32.1-122.5, 32.1-122.5:1,
						32.1-122.6, and 32.1-122.6:01 of the Code of Virginia.