The purpose of the Board shall be to initiate, encourage and promote:

(1) The relationship with Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University as Delaware’s medical school, including ensuring the admission of 20 bona fide Delaware residents into Jefferson Medical College on an annual basis.

(2) Expansion of opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain training at a reasonable cost in the health and health-related professions when such residents commit to practice their professions in Delaware.

(3) Incentives for qualified personnel in the health and health-related professions to practice in Delaware.

(4) Continued development of a coordinated program of premedical, medical and graduate education among state public institutions of higher learning, Delaware hospitals and Jefferson Medical College.

(5) Support of graduate and post-graduate medical and health-care training programs, including emphasis on those programs targeted to meet the State‘s health-care needs.

(6) Programs of education and training in the health fields and research in health and health-related fields, both basic and applied, including the vital areas of public health education, community health planning and health-care costs.

70 Del. Laws, c. 516, § ?3;