21-26-3: Definitions.

As used in the Osteopathic Intern Act:

A. "board" ["commission" ["department"]] means the board of educational finance [commission on higher education [higher education department]];

B. "hospital" means a fully accredited nonprofit osteopathic teaching hospital in New Mexico that accepts newly graduated physicians for internships in family practice; and

C. "osteopathic intern" means a graduate of a college of osteopathic medicine approved by the American Osteopathic Association and who has been accepted by a hospital for postdoctoral training in family practice.