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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1986

100 STAT. 3798

PUBLIC LAW 99-660—NOV. 14, 1986

and graduate medical education programs, for the purpose of providing support for geriatric medicine training projects to train physicians and dentists who plan to teach geriatric medicine or geriatric ^;i dentistry. "(2) 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; "(B) be staffed by full-time or part-time teaching dentists who have experience or training in geriatric dentistry; "(C) be based in a graduate medical education program in internal medicine or family medicine; '"(D) provide participgmts in the project with exposure to a diversified population of elderly individuals; "(E) provide training in geriatrics and exposure to the phys' ical and mental disabilities of elderly individuals through a variety of service rotations, such as geriatric consultation services, acute care services, dental services, geriatric psychiatry units, day and home care programs, rehabilitation services, extended care facilities, geriatric ambulatory care and com: prehensive evaluation units, and community care programs for elderly mentally retarded individuals; and "(F) provide training in geriatrics through one or both of the n tredning options described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (3). "(3) The training options referred to in subparagraph (F) of paragraph (2) are as follows: "(A) A one-year retraining program in geriatrics for— "(i) physicians who are faculty members in departments of internal medicine, family medicine, g3mecology, and psychiatry at schools of medicine and osteopathy; and "(ii) dentists who are faculty members at schools of dentistry or at hospital departments of dentistry. Fellowships. "(B) A one-year or two-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 intemgd medicine, family medicine, psychiatry, neurology, gynecology, or rehabilitation medicine; and "(ii) dentists who have completed post-doctoral dental education programs. "(4) For purposes of this subsection— "(A) the term 'graduate medical education program' means a program sponsored by a school of medicine, a school of osteopathy, a hospital, or a public or private institution, which— "(i) offers postgraduate medical training in the specialties and subspecialties of medicine; and "(ii) has been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association through its Committee on Postdoctoral Training; and "(B) the term 'post-doctoral dental education program', means a program sponsored by a school of dentistry, a hospital, or a public or private institution, which—