CHAPTER 5. MEDICAL EDUCATION BOARD; RESIDENT AND INTERNSHIP TRAINING; POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS
IC 21-44-5
Chapter 5. Medical Education Board; Resident and Internship
Training; Postgraduate Programs
IC 21-44-5-1
Medical education board established
Sec. 1. There is established a medical education board, consisting
of seven (7) persons.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-2
Members; terms
Sec. 2. (a) The board consists of the following members:
(1) The dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, who
serves as an ex officio member of the board. The dean of the
Indiana University School of Medicine shall serve as the
chairman of the board.
(2) The commissioner of the state department of health, who
serves as an ex officio member of the board.
(3) Five (5) members appointed by the governor as follows:
(A) One (1) member appointed by the governor who is a
director of medical education of an Indiana hospital not
owned or operated by Indiana University.
(B) One (1) member who:
(i) is a hospital administrator in a hospital not owned or
operated by Indiana University; and
(ii) is not the hospital administrator for the hospital that
employs the member appointed under clause (A).
(C) One (1) member who:
(i) is a citizen of Indiana; and
(ii) is not a physician and not a hospital administrator.
(D) Two (2) members who are physicians holding unlimited
licenses to practice medicine in Indiana. The two (2)
physicians appointed under this subdivision may not be
directors of medical education. One (1) of the members
appointed under this subdivision must practice in the
specialty of family practice.
(b) The terms of the five (5) members appointed to the board by
the governor are for three (3) years beginning January 1 of the year
of appointment and continuing until the member's successor is
appointed and qualified. If a membership on the board becomes
vacant before the expiration of the term, the governor shall appoint
a replacement with the same representative status to fill the
unexpired term.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-3
Meetings
Sec. 3. The board shall meet initially at the call of the governor.
After the initial meeting, the board shall meet at least twice each
year.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-4
Members; per diem
Sec. 4. The board members may not receive a salary. The board
members must be allowed a per diem for each day actually spent
upon the business of the board and may be reimbursed for any travel
expenses incurred in the performance of their responsibilities under
this chapter.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-5
Offices; personnel; expenses
Sec. 5. (a) The budget agency shall provide for necessary office
space and secretarial personnel that are:
(1) requested by the board; and
(2) required for the conduct of the board's business.
(b) Board expenses may include necessary rent, salaries, and other
necessary administrative expenses.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285. Amended by P.L.3-2008,
SEC.155.
IC 21-44-5-6
Work of accrediting bodies not compromised
Sec 6. This chapter does not in any way compromise the
accreditation of the participating hospital by the American Hospital
Association, the American Medical Association, the American
Osteopathic Hospital Association, the American Osteopathic
Association or the Association of American Medical Colleges.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-7
Statewide plan for physician recruitment and retention
Sec. 7. To retain and attract more physicians by the state, the
Indiana University School of Medicine shall establish a plan for
statewide medical education.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-8
Recommended components of plan
Sec. 8. The general assembly recommends that the plan do the
following:
(1) Provide supplemental income for interns and residents based
on the policies recommended by the board.
(2) Include a statewide communications network for television,
audio, and computer library service.
(3) Provide for the Indiana University School of Medicine to
establish working relationships or community clinical teaching
and training programs with the cooperation of the medical
profession, hospitals, and clinics.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-9
Community clinical teaching and training programs
Sec. 9. The board shall choose the sites for its community clinical
teaching and training programs. The board shall consider site
candidates in:
(1) Indianapolis;
(2) Lafayette;
(3) cities of Lake County;
(4) Michigan City;
(5) South Bend;
(6) Fort Wayne;
(7) Bluffton;
(8) Marion;
(9) Muncie;
(10) Kokomo;
(11) Richmond;
(12) Terre Haute;
(13) Vincennes;
(14) Evansville;
(15) Jeffersonville; and
(16) other areas;
when adequate preparation and funds allow a program.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-10
Recommended program components
Sec. 10. The general assembly recommends that the plan do the
following:
(1) Include formal teaching opportunities for intern and resident
training and advanced medical education throughout Indiana.
(2) Establish the positions and partially or wholly fund
additional off-campus Indiana University medical faculty and
directors of medical education located throughout Indiana with
appointment mainly in local communities.
(3) Expand continuing medical education programs for interns
and residents on a statewide basis.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-11
Medical institutions; applications for funding support
Sec. 11. Medical institutions throughout Indiana may apply for
grants-in-aid to the board or the Indiana University School of
Medicine for financial support of personnel or programs. The grants
may permit funding of programs not affiliated with Indiana
University School of Medicine.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-12
Board; establishment of policies for expenditures for intern,
residency, and graduate programs
Sec. 12. The board shall establish policies for the use and
expenditure of money appropriated for intern, residency, and
graduate programs. The board shall set standards for qualification for
participation under this chapter.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-13
Medical education advisory board; establishment of policies for
expenditures for intern, residency, and graduate programs
Sec. 13. (a) The medical education advisory board shall establish
policies for the use and expenditure of money appropriated for
intern, residency, and graduate programs.
(b) The medical education advisory board shall not establish or
recommend policies for the clinical teaching and training programs
or any related educational programs.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-14
Policy components
Sec. 14. The policies established by the board for intern,
residency, and graduate programs must include the following:
(1) A hospital must present an educational plan and a training
schedule to the board for each program for which the hospital
desires assistance under this chapter at the time the hospital
submits its application to the board.
(2) The board must be reasonably certain that the educational
program of the hospital will provide a high degree of academic
excellence.
(3) A physician, who is not the hospital administrator, must be
charged with the primary responsibility of supervising the
educational program of the hospital.
(4) One (1) individual must be charged with directing each
resident training program in a medical specialty in the hospital
in order for the residency to receive funds provided under this
chapter. The designated individual must attend one (1):
(A) professional state or national meeting; or
(B) postgraduate course, other than a course provided in the
local hospital with which the designated individual is
affiliated;
in the individual's specialty each year. The individual should
show evidence of progressive competence in the field of
medical education.
(5) Each hospital participating in this program must provide a
postgraduate education program that must be made available to
physicians in private practice in the local area. For each
residency training program, there must be at least one (1)
postgraduate course in the specialty covered by the residency
training program each year.
(6) The board shall periodically review the educational program
provided by a participating hospital to assure that the:
(A) program provides a reasonable amount of both formal
and practical training; and
(B) formal sessions are presented insofar as practicable as
often as scheduled in the educational plan of the hospital.
The review must include at least one (1) visit to each
participating hospital by the board or the board's delegated
representative each year.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-15
Intent
Sec. 15. The intent of this chapter is to establish intern, residency,
and graduate programs to assist in annually preparing, educating, and
retaining more than one hundred (100) physicians for family practice
in Indiana. Family practice programs are necessary to teach the latest
scientific care of common diseases to provide health care for the
maximum number of citizens in Indiana.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-16
Board; financial support for family practice training programs
Sec. 16. In addition to the intern, residency, and graduate
programs established under this chapter, the board shall provide
financial support for the development, enlargement, and continuation
of graduate training programs in family practice for physicians that
prepare the physicians for the specialty of family practice.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-17
Use of funding for family practice resident education
Sec. 17. Funding for family practice residency programs must be
used to provide supplemental support to eligible hospitals on behalf
of the education of family medicine residents in accordance with the
policies recommended by the board.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.
IC 21-44-5-18
Family practice residency fund
Sec. 18. Appropriations to the board from the general fund for the
board's use in developing, enlarging, and continuing graduate
training programs in family practice must be placed in a separate
fund to be called the "family practice residency fund". Amounts in
this fund do not revert to the general fund at the close of any fiscal
year.
As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.