Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 1 - TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
Chapter 6 - HEALTH EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND RESEARCH FUNDS
Subchapter H - GRANTS FOR NEW AND EXPANDED PROGRAMS FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
Section 6.137 - Definitions
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) Board--The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
(2) Commissioner--The Commissioner of Higher Education.
(3) First-Year Residency Position--A position filled by a physician that is entering into residency training for the first time.
(4) Graduate Medical Education Program (also referred to as residency training)--
(5) Graduate-Year Level--A resident's current year of accredited graduate medical education. Graduate-Year Level is also referred to as "postgraduate year" or "PGY."
(6) Medical School--A public or independent medical institution that awards the doctor of medicine (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) degree, as defined in Texas Education Code, § 61.003(5) or § 61.501(1).
(7) Request for Applications--The full text of the administrative regulations, budget guidelines, reporting requirements, and other standards of accountability for this program.
(8) Sponsoring Institution--The organization or entity that assumes the ultimate financial and/or academic responsibility for a program of graduate medical education, e.g., a university, a medical school, a hospital, a school of public health, a health department, a public health agency, an organized health care delivery system, a medical examiner's office, a consortium, an educational foundation.
(9) Applicant--A sponsoring institution that has submitted an Application for an award under the Grants for New and Expanded Programs for Graduate Medical Education.
