The standards for the expenditure of funds by private nonprofit and public hospitals pursuant to this act shall include, but shall not be limited to:

a. The relationship of the program to the graduate and undergraduate teaching programs of the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and other United States accredited medical and osteopathic schools;

b. The hospital’s need for added support for full-time hospital physicians in charge of services or departments maintaining approved graduate medical education programs;

c. The need for support of costs related to the training of graduate medical students;

d. The need for support of costs related to salaries of students enrolled in graduate medical training programs;

e. The need for support of traditional medical and audiovisual libraries necessary for graduate training programs at the hospital;

f. The need to encourage graduate training in those specialties demonstrated to have critical manpower shortages relative to the needs of New Jersey (for example, the current shortage of family physicians).

L.1977, c. 390, s. 7, eff. Feb. 23, 1978.