N.Y. Public Health Law § 906: Grants for minority participation in medical education

§ 906. Grants for minority participation in medical education. 1. The

commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education,

within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a of section

twenty-eight hundred seven-c and section twenty-eight hundred seven-l of

this chapter, is authorized to make grants to encourage minority

participation in medicine.

2. Grants shall be awarded through a request for application process

for the following purposes:

to medical schools located in New York state or primary care medical

training programs to encourage minority participation in medical

education, which may include programs to enhance minority recruitment

and retention, minority student mentoring programs, development of

medical career pathways for minority students, and development of

minority faculty role models.

3. The intent of this program is to augment or increase minority

participation in medical education. Grants funding shall not be used to

offset existing expenditures which the grantee has obligated for

minority participation in medical education.