PUBLIC LAW 102-408—OCT. 13, 1992 106 STAT. 2043 " (d) FUNDING. — "(1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. —For the purpose of carrying out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $54,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 1995. "(2) ALLOCATION.— Of the amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall make available not less than 20 percent for awards of grants and contracts under subsection (b). "SEC. 748. GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE AND GENERAL PEDIAT- 42 USC 293/. mcs. "(a) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary may make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine, public or private nonprofit hospital, or any other public or private nonprofit entity to meet the costs of projects— "(1) to plan, develop, and operate, or participate in, an approved professional training program (including an approved residency or internship program) in the field of internal medicine or pediatrics for medical (M.D. and D.O.) students, interns (including interns in internships in osteopathic medicine), residents, or practicing physicians, which training program emphasizes training for the practice of general internal medicine or general pediatrics (as defined by the Secretary in regulations); "(2) to provide financial assistance (in the form of traineeships and fellowships) to medical (M.D. and D.O.) students, interns (including interns in internships in osteopathic medicine), residents, practicing physicians, or other medical personnel, who are in need thereof, who are participants in any such training program, and who plan to specialize in or work in the practice of general internal medicine or general pediatrics; "(3) to plan, develop, and operate a program for the training of physicians who will teach in a general internal medicine or general pediatrics training program; and "(4) which provide financial assistance (in the form of traineeships and fellowships) to physicians who are participants in any such program and who plan to teach in a general internal medicine or general pediatrics training program. "(b) DURATION OF AWARD.— The period during which payments are made to an entity from an award of a grant or contract under subsection (a) may not exceed 5 years. The provision of such pay- ments shall be subject to annual approval by the Secretary of the payments and subject to the availability or appropriations for the fiscal year involved to make the payments. "(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. — For the purpose of carrying out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 1995. SEC. 749. GENERAL PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY. 42 USC 293m. "(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make grants to, and enter into contracts with, any public or nonprofit private school of dentistry or accredited postgraduate dental training institution— "(1) to plan, develop, and operate an approved residency program in the general practice of dentistry or an approved advanced educational program in the general practice of dentistry;
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