Amendment H-1051 to HF 516
Relating to medical residency and fellowship positions, including priority for admission to the university of Iowa’s colleges of medicine and dentistry, and hospitals and clinics
Adopted · March 12, 2025
Filed March 10, 2025 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a requirement that the University of Iowa hospitals and clinics must offer interviews to certain qualified applicants in specific medical specialties. It also requires the university to provide rural rotation opportunities for certain residents and fellows and to submit an annual report to the governor and the general assembly regarding these interviews.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 2, after line 9 by inserting: “Sec. ___. NEW SECTION . 263.6 Residency and fellowship positions —— priority for certain candidates —— rural rotations. The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall give priority in awarding federal residency positions as established under the federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Pub. L. No. 105-33, and fellowships to applicants who are residents of Iowa, attended and earned an undergraduate degree from an Iowa college or university, or attended and earned a medical degree from a medical school in Iowa. The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall also provide the opportunity to participate in a rural rotation to persons to whom a primary care residency or fellowship position, including such positions in psychiatry, is awarded in order to expose the resident or fellow to rural areas of the state. Sec. ___. MEDICAL RESIDENCY POSITIONS —— APPLICANTS MEETING CERTAIN CRITERIA —— ANNUAL REPORT.
- The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall offer an interview for an available medical residency position to any applicant who has a residency specialty in obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general surgery, emergency medicine, neurology, or primary care, or an available cardiology fellowship position to any applicant who has a fellowship specialty in cardiology, and who also is a resident of Iowa, attended and earned an undergraduate degree from an Iowa college or university, or attended and earned a medical degree from a medical school in Iowa.
- The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall submit a report to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, annually, regarding the interviews as specified in this section during the prior fiscal year. Specifically, the report shall include for each interview the name of the applicant’s medical school, whether an applicant was offered and participated in an interview, whether the applicant was accepted for one of the residency or fellowship positions, and the total number of available residency and fellowship positions filled by an applicant meeting the criteria under this section.”
- Title page, by striking lines 1 through 4 and inserting “An Act relating to medical residency and fellowship positions, including priority for admission to the university of Iowa’s colleges of medicine and dentistry, and hospitals and clinics.”
- By renumbering as necessary.