PUBLIC LAW 105-392—NOV. 13, 1998
112 STAT. 3545
residencies, traineeships, and fellowships) for geriatric training
projects to train physicians, dentists and behavioral and mental
health professionals who plan to teach geriatric medicine, geriatric behavioral or mental health, or geriatric dentistry.
"(2) REQUIREMENTS. —Each project for which a grant or
contract is made under this subsection shall—
"(A) be staffed by full-time teaching physicians who
have experience or training in geriatric medicine or geriatric behavioral or mental health;
"(B) be staffed, or enter into an agreement with an
institution staffed by full-time or part-time teaching dentists who have experience or training in geriatric dentistry;
"(C) be staffed, or enter into an agreement with an
institution staffed by full-time or part-time teaching behavioral mental health professionals who have experience or
training in geriatric behavioral or mental health;
"(D) be based in a graduate medical education program
in internal medicine or family medicine or in a department
of geriatrics or behavioral or mental health;
"(E) provide training in geriatrics and exposure to the
physical and mental disabilities of elderly individuals
through a variety of service rotations, such as geriatric
consultation services, acute care services, dental services,
geriatric behavioral or mental health units, day and home
care programs, rehabilitation services, extended care facilities, geriatric ambulatory care and comprehensive evaluation units, and community care programs for elderly mentally retarded individuals; and
"(F) provide training in geriatrics through one or both
of the training options described in subparagraphs (A) and
(B) of paragraph (3).
"(3) TRAINING OPTIONS. — The training options referred to
in subparagraph (F) of paragraph (2) shall be as follows:
"(A) A 1-year retraining program in geriatrics for—
"(i) physicians who are faculty members in departments of internal medicine, family medicine, gynecology, geriatrics, and behavioral or mental health at
schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine;
"(ii) dentists who are faculty members at schools
of dentistry or at hospital departments of dentistry;
and
"(iii) behavioral or mental health professionals who
are faculty members in departments of behavioral or
mental health; and
"(B) A 2-year internal medicine or family medicine
fellowship program providing emphasis in geriatrics, which
shall be designed to provide training in clinical geriatrics
and geriatrics research for—
"(i) physicians who have completed graduate medical education programs in internal medicine, family
medicine, behavioral or mental health, neurology, gynecology, or rehabilitation medicine;
"(ii) dentists who have demonstrated a commitment to an academic career and who have completed
postdoctoral dental training, including postdoctoral
dental education programs or who have relevant
advanced training or experience; and
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