What is HB 295?
HB 295 or the Physician Workforce Amendments creates a grant program to create new medical residency programs or to expand current medical residency programs.
Grant Cycle:
Funding
This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2023:
To the Utah Board of Higher Education — Medical Education Council, as a one-time appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $3,000,000;
To the Utah Board of Higher Education — Medical Education Council, as an ongoing appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $1,500,000; and
To the Utah Board of Higher Education — Medical Education Council, as an ongoing appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $550,000.
Reporting
Listed below are a few important reporting rubrics created to organize programmatic information, as well as to meet the reporting guidelines HB295 sets forth.
Figure 1. Programmatic Leadership
Figure 2. Institutional information
Figure 3. Application tracker
Figure 4.
| Interviewed – total | |||
| Utah based Medical Schools | |||
| Utah based Undergrad | |||
| Utah High School Grad | |||
| NRPM Match listed- total | |||
| Utah based Medical Schools | |||
| Utah based Undergrad | |||
| Utah High School Grad | |||
| Matriculated – total | |||
| Utah based Medical Schools | |||
| Utah based Undergrad | |||
| Utah High School Grad | |||
| Post-program practice location | U.S. Allopathic (M.D.) | Osteopathic (D.O.) | International M.D. |
| Utah HPSA | |||
| Rural | |||
| Suburban | |||
| Urban | |||
| Intermountain West HPSA | |||
| Rural | |||
| Suburban | |||
| Urban | |||
| Other HPSA | |||
| Rural | |||
| Suburban | |||
| Urban |
For more information on HB295
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Contact Information:
The Office of Primary Care & Rural Health
Email: opcrh@utah.gov