New York Consolidated Law|SECTION 901

                                                

  § 901. Definitions. The following words or phrases as used in this
article shall have the following meanings:

1. "Continuity experience" means that site where a resident spends at
least twenty percent of his or her training providing primary care
services to a panel of patients who are followed by such resident
throughout his or her training.

2. "Council" means the New York state council on graduate medical
education.

3. "President" means the president of the New York state higher
education services corporation.

4. "Primary care practitioner program" means a full or part-time
graduate, undergraduate or certificate course of study, approved or
registered by the regents or a program registered by the department of
education or determined by the department of education to be the
equivalent required to practice as a licensed or certified primary care
practitioner.

5.  "Primary care medical training program" means a graduate medical
education training program in New York state defined by the
commissioner, in consultation with the council, pursuant to regulations,
as providing appropriate training in primary care medicine.

6. "Underserved area" means an area or medically underserved
population designated by the commissioner pursuant to regulation, and in
consultation with the respective health systems agency, as having a
shortage of primary care physicians or primary care practitioners.

7. "Primary care practitioner" means a midwife, nurse practitioner, or
physician assistant who is licensed or certified to practice in New York
state and who provides or arranges for coordinated primary care
services.

8. "Primary care physician" means a physician specialist in the field
of family practice, general pediatrics, primary care internal medicine
or primary care obstetrics and gynecology; who provides coordinated
primary care services.