Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Health > Article 9 - Primary Care Education and Training

• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: means the New York state council on graduate medical education. See N.Y. Public Health Law 901
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• President: means the president of the New York state higher education services corporation. See N.Y. Public Health Law 901
• 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. See N.Y. Public Health Law 901
• 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. See N.Y. Public Health Law 901
• 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. See N.Y. Public Health Law 901
• 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. See N.Y. Public Health Law 901
• 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. See N.Y. Public Health Law 901