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42 U.S. Code § 293. Centers of excellence
(a) In general
The Secretary shall make grants to, and enter into contracts with, designated health professions schools described in subsection (c), and other public and nonprofit health or educational entities, for the purpose of assisting the schools in supporting programs of excellence in health professions education for under-represented minority individuals.
(b) Required use of fundsThe Secretary may not make a grant under subsection (a) unless the designated health professions school involved agrees, subject to subsection (c)(1)(C), to expend the grant—
(1)
to develop a large competitive applicant pool through linkages with institutions of higher education, local school districts, and other community-based entities and establish an education pipeline for health professions careers;
(2)
to establish, strengthen, or expand programs to enhance the academic performance of under-represented minority students attending the school;
(3)
to improve the capacity of such school to train, recruit, and retain under-represented minority faculty including the payment of such stipends and fellowships as the Secretary may determine appropriate;
(4)
to carry out activities to improve the information resources, clinical education, curricula and cultural competence of the graduates of the school, as it relates to minority health issues;
(5)
to facilitate faculty and student research on health issues particularly affecting under-represented minority groups, including research on issues relating to the delivery of health care;
(6) to carry out a program to train students of the school in providing health services to a significant number of under-represented minority individuals through training provided to such students at community-based health facilities that—
(A)
provide such health services; and
(B)
are located at a site remote from the main site of the teaching facilities of the school; and
(7)
to provide stipends as the Secretary determines appropriate, in amounts as the Secretary determines appropriate.