§ 21-44-5-14 — Policy components

Indiana § 21-44-5-14

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 21: HIGHER EDUCATION
• Art. 44: MEDICAL EDUCATION SYSTEM
• Ch. 5: Medical Education Board; Resident and Internship

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The policies established by the board for
intern, residency, and graduate programs must include the following:
(1) A hospital must present an educational plan and a training
schedule to the board for each program for which the hospital
desires assistance under this chapter at the time the hospital
submits its application to the board.
(2) The board must be reasonably certain that the educational
program of the hospital will provide a high degree of academic
excellence.
(3) A physician, who is not the hospital administrator, must be
charged with the primary responsibility of supervising the
educational program of the hospital.
(4) One (1) individual must be charged with directing each
resident training program in a medical specialty in the hospital in
order for the residency to receive funds provided under this
chapter. The designated individual must attend one (1):
(A) professional state or national meeting; or
(B) postgraduate course, other than a course provided in the
local hospital with which the designated individual is affiliated;
in the individual's specialty each year. The individual should
show evidence of progressive competence in the field of medical
education.
(5) Each hospital participating in this program must provide a
postgraduate education program that must be made available to
physicians in private practice in the local area. For each residency
training program, there must be at least one (1) postgraduate
course in the specialty covered by the residency training program
each year.
(6) The board shall periodically review the educational program
provided by a participating hospital to assure that the:
(A) program provides a reasonable amount of both formal and
practical training; and
(B) formal sessions are presented insofar as practicable as often
as scheduled in the educational plan of the hospital.
The review must include at least one (1) visit to each participating
hospital by the board or the board's delegated representative each
year.
[Pre-2007 Higher Education Recodification Citation:
20-12-30-3 part.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.285.