15-1645. Health professions field
scholarships; purpose; amount; repayment; definition
A. Each area health education center located in this state may grant and administer
a scholarship in an amount of not more than eight thousand dollars for each student for
each school year to at least two students who are residents of the center's geographic
area and who are enrolled in a health professions program at an Arizona university. The
scholarship shall be used to defray educational expenses including room and board.
B. A scholarship shall be granted on the condition that the student contractually
agree to practice in the center's geographic area for two years or one year of service
for each year of scholarship support, whichever is longer, after completing
post-graduation training. If the recipient withdraws from school, the recipient shall
repay all scholarship monies within one year of the withdrawal. If the student is
dismissed, an appropriate mechanism shall be negotiated to arrange repayment of the
remaining unforgiven balance with eight per cent interest.
C. For good cause a center may extend the time period for training prior to
scholarship repayment.
D. The Arizona board of regents shall waive all tuition and fees for students
granted a scholarship under this section if the legislature appropriates funds for this
purpose.
E. For the purposes of this section "health professions program" means enrollment
in a school of medicine, nursing, pharmacy or physical therapy.
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