191.500. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

191.500. As used in sections 191.500 to 191.550, unless the contextclearly indicates otherwise, the following terms mean:

(1) "Area of defined need", a community or section of an urban area ofthis state which is certified by the department of health and senior servicesas being in need of the services of a physician to improve the patient-doctorratio in the area, to contribute professional physician services to an area ofeconomic impact, or to contribute professional physician services to an areasuffering from the effects of a natural disaster;

(2) "Department", the department of health and senior services;

(3) "Eligible student", a full-time student accepted and enrolled in aformal course of instruction leading to a degree of doctor of medicine ordoctor of osteopathy at a participating school;

(4) "Financial assistance", an amount of money paid by the state ofMissouri to a qualified applicant pursuant to sections 191.500 to 191.550;

(5) "Participating school", an institution of higher learning withinthis state which grants the degrees of doctor of medicine or doctor ofosteopathy, and which is accredited in the appropriate degree program by theAmerican Medical Association or the American Osteopathic Association;

(6) "Primary care", general or family practice, internal medicine,pediatric or obstetric and gynecological care as provided to the generalpublic by physicians licensed and registered pursuant to chapter 334, RSMo;

(7) "Resident", any natural person who has lived in this state for oneor more years for any purpose other than the attending of an educationalinstitution located within this state;

(8) "Rural area", a town or community within this state which is notwithin a "standard metropolitan statistical area", and has a population of sixthousand or fewer inhabitants as determined by the last preceding federaldecennial census or any unincorporated area not within a standard metropolitanstatistical area.