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House bill to update graduate medical education grant rules advances after sponsors cite workgroup feedback
Summary
A bill to update rules and terminology for a graduate medical education grant program passed the committee after sponsors said the changes reflect board and medical school input and are intended to help distribute newly allocated state funds.
The Senate Education Committee advanced a bill that updates statutory language and grant rules for Arkansas’s graduate medical education (GME) grant program, a program sponsors said was created by legislation enacted in 2019 and funded in the 2023 session.
Representative Lee Johnson, sponsor of House Bill 1384, told the committee that the 2019 law set up a grant mechanism for residency training but that funding did not become available until the…
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