The objective and purpose of 5.7.4 NMAC is to increase the number of primary care physicians in underserved areas of the state, by making educational loans to medical students seeking to become primary care physicians. The program requires, as a condition of each loan, that the student declare the intent to practice as a primary care physician within one of the counties of the state designated by the U.S. department of health and human services as having a shortage of primary care physicians.
N.M. Admin. Code § 5.7.4.6