Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-697.9: Community Preceptor Physician Training and Work

Experience Scholarship Fund

There is hereby created and established the Community Preceptor

Physician Training and Work Experience Scholarship Fund which fund

shall be administered by the Health Care Workforce Training

Commission for the purpose of providing state matching funds

assistance and encouraging the development of a program whereby the

state in conjunction with given communities, hospitals or clinical

training situations funds the stipends and living expenses for

medical students who agree to work in these given communities during

the vacation times during the course of their education in the

University of Oklahoma College of Medicine or the Oklahoma College

of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. The Commission shall develop

procedures for determining the matching funds participation of

communities and of the state for a given student and coordinate with

the physician training institutions in the state for the selection

of students to participate in the program and the selection of

physicians who will supervise students and hospitals and clinical

situations in which the training and experience occurs in the

delivery of primary health care to rural and medically underserved

areas with the purpose of providing medical and osteopathic students

an opportunity to develop relationships with communities and

encourage them to locate their practices in areas of medical need.