Section 902. Grants for primary care undergraduate medical education

1.
  The commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner  of  education,
  is   authorized,   within  amounts  available  pursuant  to  subdivision
  nineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this  chapter,  to
  make  grants  to  medical  schools located in New York state in order to
  enhance the study of primary care, to  increase  the  opportunities  for
  undergraduate medical education in primary care at community-based sites
  and encourage the training of primary care physicians.
    2.  Grant proceeds may be used for faculty development; costs incurred
  teaching medical students at community-based sites, including,  but  not
  limited  to,  personnel,  administration,  and student-related expenses;
  expansion or development of programs that train primary care physicians;
  and other innovative programs designed to increase the number of medical
  students choosing primary care.
    3. Such grants shall be awarded on a competitive basis in amounts  not
  to   exceed   five  hundred  thousand  dollars  through  a  request  for
  application process. In making awards, consideration shall be  given  to
  applicants who:
    (a) apply in collaboration with community-based providers;
    (b)  make complementary efforts to enhance their curriculum in primary
  care;
    (c) make complementary efforts to recruit qualified faculty in primary
  care education;
    (d) make complementary efforts to reduce the  percentage  of  students
  graduating in non-primary care specialties; and
    (e)  make  complementary efforts to match such award from funds raised
  through non-public sources.
    4. The intent of this program is to augment or increase  primary  care
  undergraduate  medical  training.  Grant  funding  shall  not be used to
  offset existing expenditures that the medical school  has  obligated  or
  intends to obligate for primary care training programs.