Section 164.0281 - Duties of Office of Professional Education Preparation ProgramsThe Office of Professional Education Preparation Programs shall coordinate, promote and support activities designed to:
(1) Identify high school students and other individuals from designated underserved areas of the Commonwealth who have indicated an interest in, and demonstrated potential for pursuing professional careers;(2) Provide special educational opportunities for such students to prepare themselves for admission to, and graduation from, professional schools;(3) Provide extramural (off-campus) educational opportunities for professional students in rural and other designated underserved areas of the Commonwealth;(4) Identify currently enrolled professional students, post-graduate trainees and residents who are deemed to have realistic potential for recruitment to practice in underserved areas of the Commonwealth;(5) Provide for the intensive recruitment of such students and postgraduate trainees for practice in underserved areas;(6) Provide technical assistance to communities in their professional manpower recruitment efforts.Effective:7/15/1980
Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 2, effective7/15/1980.