PUBLIC LAW 94-464—OCT. 12, 1976
90 STAT. 2297
"(2^ More than one applicant may join in the submission of a plan described in paragraph (1). No plan may be approved by the Secretary unless— "(A) the application for a grant under section 770 of each Ante, f. 2290. school which has joined in the submission of the plan contains or is supported by assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that all of the full-time students who will graduate from such school will upon graduation have received at least 6 weeks (at least 3 of which shall be consecutive) of clinical training in an area vvliich is geographically remote from the main site of the training facilities of such school or in which medically underserved popuhitions reside; "(B) the plan contains a list of the areas where the training under such plan is to be conducted, a detailed description of the type and amount of training to be given in such areas, and provision for periodic review by experts in osteopathic education of the desirability of providing training in such areas and of the quality of training rendered in such areas; "(C) the plan contains a specific program for the appointing, as members of the faculty of the school or schools submitting the plan, of practicing physicians to serve as instructors in the training program in such areas; and "(D) the plan contains a plan for frequent counseling and consultation between the faculty of the school or schools at the main site of their training facilities and the instructors in the training program in such areas, "(d) SCHOOLS or DENTISTRY.— (1) To be eligible for a grant under section 770 for a fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1977, a school of dentistry shall, in addition to the requirements of subjection (a), meet the requirements of paragraph (2) and of paragraph (3) or (4). "(2) In the school year beginning in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and in each school year thereafter beginning m a fiscal year for which a grant under section 770 is applied for, at least 70 percent of a school of dentistry's filled positions in dental specialty programs which are in excess of the number of filled positions in its programs in the school year beginning in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977, shall be positions in dental specialty programs m general dentistry or pedodontics. "(3) A school of dentistry shall maintain an enrollment of fulltime first-year students, for the school year beginning in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each school year thereafter beginning in a fiscal year for which a grant under section 770 is applied for, which exceeds the number of full-time, first-year students enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1976— "(A) by 10 percent of such number if such number was not more than 100, or "(B) by 5 percent of such number, or 10 students, whichever is greater, if such number was more than 100. "(4)(A) A school of dentistry shall submit to the Secretary and have approved by him before the grant applied for is made, a plan to train full-time students in ambulatory care settings, in the school year beginning in the fiscal year for which the grant is made and in each school year thereafter beginning in a fiscal year for which such a grant is made, either in areas geographically remote from the main site of the teaching facilities of the applicant (or any other school of
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