2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 9 - (900 - 907) PRIMARY CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING
901 - Definitions.

 
    §  901.  Definitions.  The  following words or phrases as used in this
  article shall have the following meanings:
    1. "Continuity experience" means that site where a resident spends  at
  least  twenty  percent  of  his  or  her training providing primary care
  services to a panel of  patients  who  are  followed  by  such  resident
  throughout his or her training.
    2. "Council"  means  the  New  York  state council on graduate medical
  education.
    3. "President" means the  president  of  the  New  York  state  higher
  education services corporation.
    4.  "Primary  care  practitioner  program"  means  a full or part-time
  graduate, undergraduate or certificate  course  of  study,  approved  or
  registered  by  the regents or a program registered by the department of
  education or determined  by  the  department  of  education  to  be  the
  equivalent  required to practice as a licensed or certified primary care
  practitioner.
    5.  "Primary care medical training program" means a  graduate  medical
  education   training   program   in   New  York  state  defined  by  the
  commissioner, in consultation with the council, pursuant to regulations,
  as providing appropriate training in primary care medicine.
    6. "Underserved  area"  means  an  area   or   medically   underserved
  population designated by the commissioner pursuant to regulation, and in
  consultation  with  the  respective  health  systems agency, as having a
  shortage of primary care physicians or primary care practitioners.
    7. "Primary care practitioner" means a midwife, nurse practitioner, or
  physician assistant who is licensed or certified to practice in New York
  state  and  who  provides  or  arranges  for  coordinated  primary  care
  services.
    8. "Primary  care physician" means a physician specialist in the field
  of family practice, general pediatrics, primary care  internal  medicine
  or  primary  care  obstetrics  and  gynecology; who provides coordinated
  primary care services.