§ 901 — Definitions

§ 901. Definitions. The following words or phrases as used in this\narticle shall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Continuity experience" means that site where a resident spends at\nleast twenty percent of his or her training providing primary care\nservices to a panel of patients who are followed by such resident\nthroughout his or her training.\n 2. "Council" means the New York state council on graduate medical\neducation.\n 3. "President" means the president of the New York state higher\neducation services corporation.\n 4. "Primary care practitioner program" means a full or part-time\ngraduate, undergraduate or certificate course of study, approved or\nregistered by the regents or a program registered by the department of\neducation or determined by the department of education to be the\nequivalent required to practice as a licensed or certified primary care\npractitioner.\n 5. "Primary care medical training program" means a graduate medical\neducation training program in New York state defined by the\ncommissioner, in consultation with the council, pursuant to regulations,\nas providing appropriate training in primary care medicine.\n 6. "Underserved area" means an area or medically underserved\npopulation designated by the commissioner pursuant to regulation, and in\nconsultation with the respective health systems agency, as having a\nshortage of primary care physicians or primary care practitioners.\n 7. "Primary care practitioner" means a midwife, nurse practitioner, or\nphysician assistant who is licensed or certified to practice in New York\nstate and who provides or arranges for coordinated primary care\nservices.\n 8. "Primary care physician" means a physician specialist in the field\nof family practice, general pediatrics, primary care internal medicine\nor primary care obstetrics and gynecology; who provides coordinated\nprimary care services.\n