Sec. 102. Rural health quality and access fellowship program for Department of Veterans Affairs
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Section 7302 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall establish a fellowship program, to be known as the Rural Health Quality and Access Fellowship program, to provide fellowships to health care professionals at the post-graduate level who serve on a short-term basis as post-graduate health professions trainees at a rural or highly rural community-based outpatient clinic or rural or highly rural medical center of the Department.
Not less frequently than annually, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the program under paragraph (1). In this subsection: The term health care professional means an individual who qualifies as an appointee under section 7402 of this title. The terms rural and highly rural have the meanings given those terms under the rural-urban commuting areas coding system of the Department of Agriculture. .
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit the initial report required under section 7302(f)(2) of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.