Section 97931.01 - DefinitionsFor purposes of this article:
(a) "Code" means the Health and Safety Code.(b) "Office" means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.(c) "Employment" means the contractual work relationship between the practice setting and the physician.(d) "Full-time status" or "full-time practice" means providing medical services for a minimum of 40 hours per week, for a minimum of 45 weeks per year. The 40 hours per week may be compressed into no less than four days per week, with no more than 12 hours of work in any 24-hour period. This does not include hours spent on call. At least 32 hours per week must be spent providing clinical services at the approved practice site(s) during normal office hours, except that, for physicians who are continuously engaged in the practice of obstetrics, at least 21 hours must be spent providing clinical services in addition to deliveries and other inpatient coverage. Absence from the practice cannot exceed 7 weeks in a calendar year except as otherwise required in order to comply with applicable federal and state laws.(e) "Lender" means an entity from which an applicant has obtained a loan as defined in section 97931.01(f).(f) "Loan" means an outstanding government or commercial educational loan for expenses incurred for undergraduate education and graduate medical education.(g) "Program" means the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program described in Article 5 of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 107 (commencing with Section 128550) of the code.(h) "Recently obtained a license" means the physician was first issued an allopathic physician's license in any state of the United States or in Canada within 15 years from the date on which the application for loan repayment is filed.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 97931.01
1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering title 16, division 13, chapter 1, article 3.1 (sections 1303.01-1313.06) to title 22, chapter 18 (sections 97931.01-97931.06) and renumbering title 16, section 1313.01 to title 22, section 97931.01 (including amendment of section and NOTE) filed 6-25-2015 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2015, No. 26). Note: Authority cited: Section 128554, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 128552 and 128553, Health and Safety Code.
1. New article 3.1 (sections 1313.01-1313.06) and section filed 4-25-2003 as an emergency; operative 4-25-2003 (Register 2003, No. 17). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 8-25-2003 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-25-2003 order transmitted to OAL 8-19-2003 and filed 9-30-2003 (Register 2003, No. 40).
3. Change without regulatory effect amending article heading and subsections (b) and (g) filed 1-12-2006 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2006, No. 2).
4. Change without regulatory effect renumbering title 16, division 13, chapter 1, article 3.1 (sections 1303.01-1313.06) to title 22, chapter 18 (sections 97931.01-97931.06) and renumbering title 16, section 1313.01 to title 22, section 97931.01 filed 6-25-2015 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2015, No. 26).