The purpose of the Medical Student Loan for Service Act is to meet the emergency currently existing resulting from the shortage of medical doctors and physician assistants in the less populated areas of the state by increasing the number of practitioners in rural areas through a program of loans for medical and physician assistant students. The program shall require as a condition of each loan that the student declare his intent that after licensure he will commence his practice of medicine within one of the areas of the state designated by the commission [department].

History: 1953 Comp., § 73-38A-2, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 244, § 2; 1991, ch. 262, § 28; 1995, ch. 144, § 2; 2005, ch. 321, § 1.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

For designation of the commission on higher education as the higher education department, see 9-25-4.1 NMSA 1978.

Cross references. — For provisions on the health profession advisory committee, see 21-1-26.8 NMSA 1978.

The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, changed "health profession advisory committee" to "commission".

The 1995 amendment, effective July 1, 1995, deleted Subsection B and, in the former Subsection A, deleted the subsection designation, substituted "health profession advisory committee" for "medical shortage area committee" in the second sentence, and made a minor stylistic change at the end.

The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, added "Committee" in the catchline and rewrote the section to the extent that a detailed analysis would be impracticable.