Texas Education Code

§ 58.009 — FACULTY ENHANCEMENT FUND FOR GENERALIST PHYSICIANS

ED § 58.009Title 3. HIGHER EDUCATION · Part A. HIGHER EDUCATION IN GENERAL · Ch. 58. COMPENSATION OF RESIDENT PHYSICIANS

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(a)Only accredited medical schools identified in Section 61.501(1) shall be eligible to receive funds under this section.

(b)Only full-time, clinical faculty positions in family practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics whose faculty rank is no greater than assistant professor shall be eligible for funds under this section.

(c)The committee shall recommend to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board an allocation of generalist faculty positions that are to receive state support through the Faculty Enhancement Fund for Generalist Physicians. The committee shall take into consideration in recommending an allocation the following factors:

(1)the faculty-student ratio in the generalist specialty at the applicant school;

(2)the length of time a budgeted generalist faculty position has gone unfilled;

(3)whether the position is a new generalist faculty position; and

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 940, Sec. 2, eff. June 18, 1997.