As used in this article, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Family physician” means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services to individuals and families and who has received specialized training in an approved family medicine residency for three years after graduation from an accredited medical school.

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(b) “Primary care physician” means a physician who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services, and has received specialized training in the areas of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, or pediatrics.

(c) “Council” means the California Health Workforce Education and Training Council.

(d) “Graduate medical education” means residency programs for education or training in one or more specialties or subspecialties following graduation from medical school.

(e) “Health professions education and training” means any formal organized education or training undertaken for the purpose of gaining knowledge and skills necessary to practice a specific health profession or to provide a role in a health care setting. Health professions education and training includes any type of health professions training program, including shadowing programs, participating in rotations, affiliation agreements, and accredited or accreditation-eligible programs, at any educational level, including certificate, undergraduate, graduate, professional, or postgraduate, and in any clinical discipline, excluding graduate medical education.

(f) “Programs that train postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants” means a program that provides postgraduate fellowships for clinical training in primary care. Programs shall be affiliated with a community-based ambulatory patient care center within underserved communities.

(g) “Programs that train primary care physician’s assistants” means a program that has been approved for the training of primary care physician assistants pursuant to § 3513 of the Business and Professions Code.

(h) “Programs that train postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners” means a program that provides postgraduate fellowships for clinical training in primary care. Programs shall be affiliated with a community-based ambulatory patient care center within underserved communities.

(i) “Programs that train primary care nurse practitioners” means a program that is operated by a California school of medicine or nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California or by the Trustees of the California State University, or that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing.

(j) “Programs that train registered nurses” means a program that is operated by a California school of nursing and approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, or that is authorized by the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and that is approved by the Board of Registered Nursing.

(k) “Programs that train midwives” means programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives, as those terms are defined in Section 128297.

(l) “Teaching health center” means a community-based ambulatory patient care center that operates a primary care residency program. Community-based ambulatory patient care settings include, but are not limited to, federally qualified health centers, community mental health centers, rural health clinics, health centers operated by the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization, and entities receiving funds under Title X of the federal Public Health Service Act (Public Law 91-572).

(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 738, Sec. 7. (AB 204) Effective September 29, 2022.)