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128205
. As used in this article, and Article 2 (commencing with
Section 128250), the following terms mean:
(a) "Family physician" means a primary care physician who is
prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative
health care services to families and who has received specialized
training in an approved family medicine residency for three years
after graduation from an accredited medical school.
(b) "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.
(c) "Associated" and "affiliated" mean that relationship that
exists by virtue of a formal written agreement between a hospital or
other health care delivery system and an approved medical school that
pertains to the primary care or family medicine training program for
which state contract funds are sought.
(d) "Commission" means the California Healthcare Workforce Policy
Commission.
(e) "Programs that train primary care physician's assistants"
means a program that has been approved for the training of primary
care physician assistants pursuant to Section 3513 of the Business
and Professions Code.
(f) "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.
(g) "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.
(h) "Teaching health center" means a community-based ambulatory
patient care center that operates a primary care residency program.
Community-based ambulatory patient care settings include, but are not
limited to, federally qualified health centers, community mental
health centers, rural health clinics, health centers operated by the
Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, or an
urban Indian organization, and entities receiving funds under Title X
of the federal Public Health Service Act (Public Law 91-572).