What is HB 295?
HB 295 or the "Physician Workforce Amendments" is a grant program to create new medical residency programs or to expand current medical residency programs in the state of Utah.
Grant Cycle
Funding
This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2023:
To the Utah Board of Higher Education — Medical Education Council, as a one-time appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $3,000,000;
To the Utah Board of Higher Education — Medical Education Council, as an ongoing appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $1,500,000; and
To the Utah Board of Higher Education — Medical Education Council, as an ongoing appropriation:
• from the Education Fund, $550,000.
Reporting
Listed below are a few important reporting rubrics created to organize programmatic information, as well as to meet the reporting guidelines HB295 sets forth.
Figure 1:
| Interviewed – total | |||
| Utah based Medical Schools | |||
| Utah based Undergrad | |||
| Utah High School Grad | |||
| NRPM Match listed- total | |||
| Utah based Medical Schools | |||
| Utah based Undergrad | |||
| Utah High School Grad | |||
| Matriculated – total | |||
| Utah based Medical Schools | |||
| Utah based Undergrad | |||
| Utah High School Grad | |||
| Post-program practice location | U.S. Allopathic (M.D.) | Osteopathic (D.O.) | International M.D. |
| Utah HPSA | |||
| Rural | |||
| Suburban | |||
| Urban | |||
| Intermountain West HPSA | |||
| Rural | |||
| Suburban | |||
| Urban | |||
| Other HPSA | |||
| Rural | |||
| Suburban | |||
| Urban |
For more information on HB295
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Contact Information:
Utah Department of Health and Human Services Office of Primary Care & Rural Health