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. For purposes of this article, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Account" means the Medically Underserved Account for
Physicians established within the Health Professions Education Fund
pursuant to this article.
(b) "Foundation" means the Health Professions Education
Foundation.
(c) "Fund" means the Health Professions Education Fund.
(d) "Medi-Cal threshold languages" means primary languages spoken
by limited-English-proficient (LEP) population groups meeting a
numeric threshold of 3,000, eligible LEP Medi-Cal beneficiaries
residing in a county, 1,000 Medi-Cal eligible LEP beneficiaries
residing in a single ZIP Code, or 1,500 LEP Medi-Cal beneficiaries
residing in two contiguous ZIP Codes.
(e) "Medically underserved area" means an area defined as a health
professional shortage area in Part 5 of Subchapter A of Chapter 1 of
Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations or an area of the state
where unmet priority needs for physicians exist as determined by the
California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission pursuant to Section
128225.
(f) "Medically underserved population" means the Medi-Cal program,
Healthy Families Program, and uninsured populations.
(g) "Office" means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development (OSHPD).
(h) "Physician Volunteer Program" means the Physician Volunteer
Registry Program established by the Medical Board of California.
(i) "Practice setting," for the purposes of this article only,
means either of the following:
(1) A community clinic as defined in subdivision (a) of Section
1204 and subdivision (c) of Section 1206, a clinic owned or operated
by a public hospital and health system, or a clinic owned and
operated by a hospital that maintains the primary contract with a
county government to fulfill the county's role pursuant to Section
17000 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, which is located in a
medically underserved area and at least 50 percent of whose patients
are from a medically underserved population.
(2) A physician owned and operated medical practice setting that
provides primary care located in a medically underserved area and has
a minimum of 50 percent of patients who are uninsured, Medi-Cal
beneficiaries, or beneficiaries of another publicly funded program
that serves patients who earn less than 250 percent of the federal
poverty level.
(j) "Primary specialty" means family practice, internal medicine,
pediatrics, or obstetrics/gynecology.
(k) "Program" means the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan
Repayment Program.
(l) "Selection committee" means a minimum three-member committee
of the board, that includes a member that was appointed by the
Medical Board of California.