2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 99. DELAWARE HEALTH CARE COMMISSION
Subchapter II. Delaware Institute of Medical Education and Research
§ 9907. Purposes of the Board.
The purpose of the Board shall be to initiate, encourage and promote:
(1) The relationship with Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University (SKMC) and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) as Delaware's medical schools, and ensure the annual admission of 20 bona fide Delaware residents into SKMC and 10 bona fide Delaware residents into PCOM.
(2) Expansion of opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain training at a reasonable cost in the health and health-related professions when such residents commit to practice their professions in Delaware.
(3) Incentives for qualified personnel in the health and health-related professions to practice in Delaware.
(4) Continued development of a coordinated program of premedical, medical and graduate education among state public institutions of higher learning, Delaware hospitals, SKMC, and PCOM.
(5) Support of graduate and post-graduate medical and health-care training programs, including emphasis on those programs targeted to meet the State's health-care needs.
(6) Programs of education and training in the health fields and research in health and health-related fields, both basic and applied, including the vital areas of public health education, community health planning and health-care costs.
