National Health Service Corps Program Law and Legal Definition
The National Health Service Corps Program (“Program”) is a federal program that eliminates health manpower shortages in health manpower shortage areas. The Secretary of Public Health Service (“Secretary”) provides primary health services in health professional shortage areas. The term "primary health services" means health services regarding family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, dentistry, or mental health, that are provided by physicians or other health professionals. [42 USCS § 254d].
Under this Program, the Secretary may conduct at schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, and, as appropriate, nursing and other schools of the health professions, including schools at which graduate programs of behavioral and mental health are offered. In addition, the Secretary provides recruiting programs for the Corps, the Scholarship Program, and the Loan Repayment Program.
Legal Definition list
- National Guardianship Association
- National Guard
- National Group
- National Gang Intelligence Center
- National Gang Center
- National Health Service Corps Program
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Highway Institute
- National Highway System Designation Act
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA]
- National Historic Preservation Act
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