53B-17-902.  Health Sciences — Psychiatry medical residents selection — Grant program.

(1)  As used in this section:

(a)  “Psychiatry resident” means a medical resident practicing in any type of psychiatry specialty or subspecialty, as determined by the university.

(b)  “University” means the University of Utah Health Sciences.

(2) 

(a)  Subject to legislative appropriations, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year, the university shall annually select up to four more first-year psychiatry residents than the number of first-year psychiatry residents the university selected for the 2018-19 academic year.

(b)  Subject to legislative appropriations, beginning with the 2021-22 academic year, the university shall annually select up to two more first-year psychiatry residents than the number of first-year psychiatry residents the university selected for the 2019-2020 academic year.

(c)  Nothing in this section prohibits the university from using money from a source other than legislative appropriations to select more than the total number of psychiatry residents described in Subsection (2)(a) or (b).

(d)  The university may not use money appropriated for the purposes described in this Subsection (2) to supplant existing money used for psychiatry residents.

(3) 

(a)  Subject to legislative appropriations, the university shall award a grant to produce a certification in child and adolescent behavioral health primary care for primary care physicians and medical professionals, school counselors, social workers, and other professionals who work with children and adolescents.

(b)  The university shall ensure that the amount of the grant awarded under Subsection (3)(a) is matched, at a minimum, by private gifts, grants, and bequests of personal property made to the grant.

Amended by Chapter 431, 2020 General Session