N.Y. Public Health Law § 901: Definitions

§ 901. Definitions. The following words or phrases as used in this

article shall have the following meanings:

1. "Continuity experience" means that site where a resident spends at

least twenty percent of his or her training providing primary care

services to a panel of patients who are followed by such resident

throughout his or her training.

2. "Council" means the New York state council on graduate medical

education.

3. "President" means the president of the New York state higher

education services corporation.

4. "Primary care practitioner program" means a full or part-time

graduate, undergraduate or certificate course of study, approved or

registered by the regents or a program registered by the department of

education or determined by the department of education to be the

equivalent required to practice as a licensed or certified primary care

practitioner.

5. "Primary care medical training program" means a graduate medical

education training program in New York state defined by the

commissioner, in consultation with the council, pursuant to regulations,

as providing appropriate training in primary care medicine.

6. "Underserved area" means an area or medically underserved

population designated by the commissioner pursuant to regulation, and in

consultation with the respective health systems agency, as having a

shortage of primary care physicians or primary care practitioners.

7. "Primary care practitioner" means a midwife, nurse practitioner, or

physician assistant who is licensed or certified to practice in New York

state and who provides or arranges for coordinated primary care

services.

8. "Primary care physician" means a physician specialist in the field

of family practice, general pediatrics, primary care internal medicine

or primary care obstetrics and gynecology; who provides coordinated

primary care services.