Section 10.172 - Definitions The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) Board--The governing body of the agency known as the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.(2) Commissioner--The Texas Commissioner of Higher Education.(3) Coordinating Board--The agency known as the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, including agency staff. (4) Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership--A partnership that consists of one or more hospitals in this state and one or more graduate professional nursing or graduate medical education programs in this state and serves to increase training opportunities in emergency and trauma care for doctors and registered nurses at participating graduate medical education and graduate professional nursing programs. (5) Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program--The period of didactic and clinical education in a medical specialty, subspecialty, or sub-subspecialty that follows completion of undergraduate medical education (i.e., medical school) and that prepares physicians for the independent practice of medicine in that specialty, subspecialty, or sub-subspecialty.(6) Graduate Professional Nursing Program--An educational program of a public or private institution of higher education that prepares students for a master's or doctoral degree, as defined in Texas Education Code, § 54.355.(7) Hospital--A Texas general hospital or special hospital, as defined in Texas Health and Safety Code, § 241.003, excluding a facility that is owned, maintained, or operated by the federal government or an agency of the federal government.(8) Request for Application (RFA)--The official document issued by the Coordinating Board to solicit applicants for an award of available grant funds.19 Tex. Admin. Code § 10.172
Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 45, November 8, 2024, TexReg 8886, eff. 11/14/2024