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A community match is required. A related program gives similar loan repayments up to $30,000 to physician assistants and nurse practitioners for a two-year-commitment to work in rural or other underserved areas, again with a community match required.
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• OHIO
• The governor wants to target graduate medical education funding toward training in primary care. Under a budget proposal still being debated, medical schools would receive about $200 million over the two-year budget period that begins in July. The state would then work with medical deans on a plan to prioritize training in primary care services, with the idea that dollars would be more focused in that area in the 2015 budget year.
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• SOUTH DAKOTA
• South Dakota has a program that reimburses doctors double the University of South Dakota School of Medicine's resident tuition for the most recent four-year-period if they agree to practice for three years in underserved rural areas. The current amount is about $138,000. A related program also gives double tuition reimbursements to physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives who agree to practice in rural areas for three years, while a third program gives a $10,000 payment to nurses, therapists, lab professionals and others who practice in a rural area for three years.
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• WISCONSIN
• So far, no Wisconsin bills have dealt specifically with increasing the number of physicians or granting medical decision-making authority to pharmacists and other health care workers. But the budget-writing committee of the Republican-controlled state Legislature unanimously approved a measure to shift more money toward residency programs in the state. Supporters said the bill will encourage new doctors to remain in Wisconsin.
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SD Highway Patrol official promoted to major
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Highway Patrol Lt. Rick Miller has been promoted to the rank of major and will be assistant superintendent in charge of the agency's administrative operations.
• Miller will focus on the use of technology for the Highway Patrol. He also will supervise the agency's training division, human resources, State Radio and budget (Continued on page 24)
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