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128565
. For purposes of this article, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Account" means the Steven M. Thompson Medical School
Scholarship Account established within the Health Professions
Education Fund pursuant to this article.
(b) "Foundation" means the Health Professions Education
Foundation.
(c) "Medi-Cal threshold languages" means primary languages spoken
by limited-English-proficient (LEP) population groups meeting a
numeric threshold of 3,000 LEP individuals eligible for Medi-Cal
residing in a county, 1,000 LEP individuals eligible for Medi-Cal
residing in a single ZIP Code, or 1,500 LEP individuals eligible for
Medi-Cal residing in two contiguous ZIP Codes.
(d) "Medically underserved area" means an area defined as a health
professional shortage area in Part 5 (commencing with Sec. 5.1) 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.
(e) "Medically underserved population" means the persons served by
the Medi-Cal program, the Healthy Families Program, and uninsured
populations.
(f) "Office" means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development (OSHPD).
(g) "Practice setting" 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, each of which is located
in a medically underserved area and at least 50 percent of whose
patients are from a medically underserved population.
(2) A medical practice located in a medically underserved area and
at least 50 percent of whose patients are from a medically
underserved population.
(h) "Primary specialty" means family practice, internal medicine,
pediatrics, or obstetrics/gynecology.
(i) "Program" means the Steven M. Thompson Medical School
Scholarship Program.
(j) "Selection committee" means the advisory committee of not more
than seven members established pursuant to subdivision (b) of
Section 128551.
(k) "Super-medically underserved area" means an area defined as
medically underserved pursuant to subdivision (d) that also meets a
heightened criteria of physician shortage as determined by the
foundation.