§ 6-81-701 - Definitions.
6-81-701. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) "Board" means the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board;
(2) "Designated specialty" means a medical practice other than primary care that a loan or income incentive recipient and the board have agreed will be practiced in the qualified rural community;
(3) "Medically underserved" means an area that the board determines to have unmet needs for medical services due to factors including without limitation:
(A) The ratio of primary care physicians to population;
(B) The infant mortality rate;
(C) The percentage of:
(i) Population with incomes below the federal poverty level, as it existed on January 1, 2007;
(ii) Resident individuals sixty (60) years of age and older; and
(iii) Physicians sixty (60) years of age and older;
(D) Accessibility within the area to primary care medicine; and
(E) Other relevant criteria the board may deem necessary for a determination of unmet needs for medical services;
(4) "Primary care medicine" means health care provided in one (1) of the following areas of practice:
(A) Family medicine;
(B) General internal medicine;
(C) General internal medicine and pediatrics;
(D) General pediatrics;
(E) General obstetrics and gynecology;
(F) General surgery;
(G) Emergency medicine; and
(H) Geriatrics; and
(5) "Qualified rural community" means an area reasonably determined by the board to be medically underserved.