395.807 Retention of family practice residents. - Florida Statutes

395.807 Retention of family practice residents.

   (1) A family practice teaching hospital must have a documented plan for retaining family practice residents in the state.

   (2)(a) The director of the agency shall appoint a seven-member family practice physician retention advisory committee, consisting of a faculty member of a family practice teaching hospital, an active family practice resident, a member of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, a member of the Florida Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, a family practice physician who practices in an urban area, a family practice physician who practices in a rural area, and the residency director of a family practice residency program.

   (b) The committee shall develop a program for recruiting minority physicians into family practice residency programs and shall promote further efforts to retain and place minority physicians into local communities.

History. s. 4, ch. 94-182; s. 104, ch. 2010-102.