Tex. Educ. Code § 51.918 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
RURAL HEALTH; FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY PROGRAM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Texas Department of Rural Affairs, medical schools, nursing schools, and schools of allied health sciences shall cooperate to improve and expand programs for rural areas.
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall:
(1) encourage and coordinate the creation or expansion of a rural preceptor program among medical schools, teaching hospitals, nursing schools, and schools of allied health sciences; and
(2) require family practice residency programs to provide an opportunity for residents to have a one-month rotation through:
(A) a rural setting; and
(B) a public health setting.
(c) The Texas Department of Rural Affairs shall develop relief service programs for rural physicians and allied health personnel to facilitate ready access to continuing medical education as well as to provide practice coverage for purposes other than continuing medical education.
(d) Each medical school shall:
(1) incorporate a clerkship in family practice during the third core clinical year; and
(2) report to the legislature and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on its efforts to fulfill the intent of Chapter 58, Education Code, of having at least 25 percent of their first year primary care residents in family practice.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1027, Sec. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Renumbered from Sec. 51.917 by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 19.01(20), eff. Aug. 26, 1991. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 349, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 965, Sec. 11, eff. June 16, 1995; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 787, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1424, Sec. 5, 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (H.B. 1918), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2009.
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