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2016 SESSION


CHAPTER 691
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23-9.2:3.11, relating to medical school; clinical rotations.
[S 452]
Approved April 4, 2016

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 23-9.2:3.11 as follows:

§ 23-9.2:3.11. Medical school; rotation requirement.

Any public institution of higher education that awards medical degrees shall create and support at least one clinical rotation in a hospital or clinic located in a medically underserved area of the state as determined by the Virginia Department of Health, in an area of the state that has an unemployment rate of one and one-half times the statewide average unemployment rate, or in a locality with a population of 50,000 or less in the Commonwealth.