Sec. 3. Increasing mentoring and transforming competencies in primary care

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Title VII of the Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after section 747A (42 U.S.C. 293k–1), the following: The Secretary may award grants to eligible medical schools to assist such schools in developing and strengthening primary care mentorship programs and cultivating leaders in primary care among students. To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall— be an accredited medical school or college of osteopathic medicine; and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including an assurance that the applicant will use amounts received under the grant to— establish or enhance existing mentorship programs, including— incentivizing medical school faculty (through financial or other reward systems) to participate as a mentor of other primary care physician faculty members and students; providing resources for aspiring mentors to participate in workshops or other learning experiences in which primary care physicians can learn about effective strategies in primary care mentoring; enabling successful primary care mentors on medical school faculty to spend time at another institution where they can promote best practices in mentoring primary care leaders and students; and developing web-based resources for mentors to interact regularly and share successful strategies; or cultivate interest and leaders in primary care among students, including— offering students that identify interest in primary care upon matriculation, longitudinal experiences in primary care to care for and track the health and wellness of patients throughout medical school; arranging partnerships with private practices, insurers, schools of public health, public health departments, and community-based service projects with the goal of providing students with the opportunity to interact with primary care mentors from a variety of health care settings; providing stipends or other forms of financial resources to students who work with designated mentors in the field of primary care in underserved urban and rural communities; and supporting opportunities for students to engage in practice redesign or other efforts in which primary care physicians are taking a leadership role in delivery system reform.

There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2021. In order to foster curricular innovations to improve the education and training of health care providers, the Secretary shall award grants to medical and other health professions schools to promote priority competencies (as described in subsection (b)). In awarding grants under subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care and Dentistry, shall select an annual competency to direct the awarding of such grants.

Such annual competencies may include— patient-centered medical homes; chronic disease management; integration of primary care and mental health care; integration of primary care, public and population health, and health promotion; cultural competency; domestic violence; improving care in medically undeserved areas; and team-based care. The Secretary may award grants under subsection

(a)to programs that provide education or training for— physicians; dentists and dental hygienists; physician assistants; mental and behavioral health providers; public and populations health professionals; or pharmacists. The Secretary shall give consideration to applicants that are proposing to partner with other medical programs, health professions programs, or nursing programs. The recipient of a grant under this section shall, not later than 180 days after the end of the grant period involved, submit to the Advisory Committee, a report on the following (where appropriate): A description of how the funding under the grant was used by the grantee. A description of the intended goal of such funding. A description of the challenges faced by the grantee in reaching the goal described in paragraph (2). A description of the lessons learned by the grantee related to the grant activities. The Advisory Committee, based on the information submitted under subsection (d), shall annually report to the Secretary on outcomes of the activities carried out under grants under this section, including specific recommendations for scaling up innovations to promote education and training of health care providers in the priority competencies described in subsection (b). There are authorized to be appropriated, $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019 to carry out this section. .

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