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25 USC § 1616p - Health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t25/s1616p"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "25 USC § 1616p - Health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
section_number: "1616p"
section_name: "Health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs"
chapter_number: 18
chapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "INDIAN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-07-14"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 123, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)"
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# § 1616p. Health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs

**(a)** **Demonstration programs** The Secretary, acting through the Service, may fund demonstration programs for Indian health programs to address the chronic shortages of health professionals.

**(b)** **Purposes of programs** The purposes of demonstration programs under subsection (a) shall be—

**(1)** to provide direct clinical and practical experience within an Indian health program to health profession students and residents from medical schools;

**(2)** to improve the quality of health care for Indians by ensuring access to qualified health professionals;

**(3)** to provide academic and scholarly opportunities for health professionals serving Indians by identifying all academic and scholarly resources of the region; and

**(4)** to provide training and support for alternative provider types, such as community health representatives, and community health aides.

**(c)** **Advisory board** The demonstration programs established pursuant to subsection (a) shall incorporate a program advisory board, which may be composed of representatives of tribal governments, Indian health programs, and Indian communities in the areas to be served by the demonstration programs.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 123, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

is based on section 112 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by .

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1616p, , as added , , , authorized appropriations through fiscal year 2000 to carry out this subchapter, prior to repeal by , , . The repeal is based on section 101(b)(1) of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by .