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2019 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 395 HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION Entire Chapter
SECTION 807
Retention of family practice residents.
F.S. 395.807
395.807 Retention of family practice residents.—
(1) A family practice teaching hospital must have a documented plan for retaining family practice residents in the state.
(2)(a) The director of the agency shall appoint a seven-member family practice physician retention advisory committee, consisting of a faculty member of a family practice teaching hospital, an active family practice resident, a member of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, a member of the Florida Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, a family practice physician who practices in an urban area, a family practice physician who practices in a rural area, and the residency director of a family practice residency program.
(b) The committee shall develop a program for recruiting minority physicians into family practice residency programs and shall promote further efforts to retain and place minority physicians into local communities.
History.—s. 4, ch. 94-182; s. 104, ch. 2010-102.