§ 902. Grants for primary care undergraduate medical education. 1.
The commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education,
is authorized, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision
nineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this chapter, to
make grants to medical schools located in New York state in order to
enhance the study of primary care, to increase the opportunities for
undergraduate medical education in primary care at community-based sites
and encourage the training of primary care physicians.

2. Grant proceeds may be used for faculty development; costs incurred
teaching medical students at community-based sites, including, but not
limited to, personnel, administration, and student-related expenses;
expansion or development of programs that train primary care physicians;
and other innovative programs designed to increase the number of medical
students choosing primary care.

3. Such grants shall be awarded on a competitive basis in amounts not
to exceed five hundred thousand dollars through a request for
application process. In making awards, consideration shall be given to
applicants who:

(a) apply in collaboration with community-based providers;

(b) make complementary efforts to enhance their curriculum in primary
care;

(c) make complementary efforts to recruit qualified faculty in primary
care education;

(d) make complementary efforts to reduce the percentage of students
graduating in non-primary care specialties; and

(e) make complementary efforts to match such award from funds raised
through non-public sources.

4. The intent of this program is to augment or increase primary care
undergraduate medical training. Grant funding shall not be used to
offset existing expenditures that the medical school has obligated or
intends to obligate for primary care training programs.