[§304A-1704]  Council duties.  Themedical education council shall:

(1)  Conduct a comprehensive analysis of thehealthcare workforce requirements of the State for the present and the future,focusing in particular on the State's need for physicians;

(2)  Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the State'shealthcare training programs, focusing in particular on graduate medicaleducation programs and their role in and ability to meet the healthcareworkforce requirements identified by the council;

(3)  Recommend to the legislature and the board ofregents changes in or additions to the healthcare training programs in theState identified by the council's assessment;

(4)  Work with other entities and state agencies asnecessary, develop a plan to ensure the adequate funding of healthcare trainingprograms in the State, with an emphasis on graduate medical education programs,and after consultation with the legislature and the board of regents, implementthe plan.  The plan shall specify the funding sources for healthcare trainingprograms and establish the methodology for funding disbursement.  Funds shallbe expended for the types of costs normally associated with healthcare trainingprograms, including but not limited to physician salaries and other operating andadministrative costs.  The plan may include the submission of an application inaccordance with federal law for a demonstration project to the Centers forMedicaid and Medicare Services, for the purpose of receiving and disbursingfederal funds for direct and indirect graduate medical education expenses;

(5)  Seek funding from public sources, including stateand federal government, and private sources to support the plan required inparagraph (4);

(6)  Monitor the implementation and effectiveness ofthe plan required in paragraph (4), making such modifications as may berequired by future developments and changing needs and after consulting withthe legislature and the board of regents, as appropriate; and

(7)  Submit a summary report to the legislature nolater than twenty days before the convening of each regular session, of theexpenditures of program moneys authorized by the council under this subpart. [L2006, c 75, pt of §2]