Rule 195-10-.01 - General Definitions(1) "Preventive Medicine Residency Program" is a one or two-year training program after graduation from medical school designed to provide the experience required to train a preventive medicine physician as delineated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Essentials for Residency Programs in Preventive Medicine.(2) "Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)" is the body established to accredit residency programs.(3) "Institutional, Program and Fellowship Requirements" of the ACGME details the institutional and program requirements for each of the medical specialties and subspecialties.(4) "Qualified Hospital" means a hospital, or associated hospitals, which meet(s) the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements for a critical mass and mix of hospital patients, medical staff, facilities, and financial support adequate to sustain a quality program of preventive medicine resident training.(5) "Underserved Areas" are those geographic areas of the state in which the Board determines there is a shortage of preventive medicine physicians.(6) "Resident" means an individual at any level in an ACGME-accredited Graduate Medical Education Program, including subspecialty programs.(7) "Capitation" means Board funding of designated Preventive Medicine Residency Training Programs based upon a fixed dollar amount per resident times the number of residents in training, with the fixed dollar amount being set by the total state appropriation available for this purpose.(8) "Board Programs" means those medical education activities supported by the Board and/or funded by the General Assembly to address Georgia's physician workforce needs.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 195-10-.01
O.C.G.A. §49-10.
Original Rule entitled "General Definitions" adopted. F. Jan. 10, 2005; eff. Jan. 30, 2005.Repealed: New Rule of same title adopted. F. Nov. 15, 2018; eff. Dec. 5, 2018.Repealed: New Rule of the same title adopted. F. Dec. 11, 2019; eff. Dec. 31, 2019.