Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 128210
There is hereby created a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, teaching health centers, programs that train postgraduate primary care physician's assistants, programs that train primary care physician's assistants, programs that train postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners, programs that train primary care nurse practitioners, programs that train registered nurses, and programs that train midwives to increase the number of students and residents receiving quality education and training in the primary care specialties of family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, midwifery, and pediatrics, or in nursing and to maximize the delivery of primary care and family physician services to specific areas of California where there is a recognized unmet priority need for those services.
Ca. Health and Saf. Code § 128210