There is hereby created a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, teaching health centers, programs that train postgraduate primary care physician‘s assistants, programs that train primary care physician’s assistants, programs that train postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners, programs that train primary care nurse practitioners, programs that train registered nurses, and programs that train midwives to increase the number of students and residents receiving quality education and training in the primary care specialties of family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, midwifery, and pediatrics, or in nursing and to maximize the delivery of primary care and family physician services to specific areas of California where there is a recognized unmet priority need for those services.

(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 738, Sec. 8. (AB 204) Effective September 29, 2022.)

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 128210

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Family physician: means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services to individuals and families and who has received specialized training in an approved family medicine residency for three years after graduation from an accredited medical school. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
  • Primary care physician: means a physician who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services, and has received specialized training in the areas of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, or pediatrics. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
  • Programs that train midwives: means programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives, as those terms are defined in Section 128297. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
  • Programs that train postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners: means a program that provides postgraduate fellowships for clinical training in primary care. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
  • Programs that train primary care nurse practitioners: means a program that is operated by a California school of medicine or nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California or by the Trustees of the California State University, or that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
  • Programs that train registered nurses: means a program that is operated by a California school of nursing and approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing. See California Health and Safety Code 128205
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
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