Relating to a state-funded psychiatry residency and fellowship program

180 to also include fellowship positions and renaming the program the state-funded psychiatry residency and fellowship program. The bill requires the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics (UIHC) to administer the state-funded psychiatry residency and fellowship program for up to nine residents and up to two fellows, annually. The bill continues the requirement that the UIHC cooperate with the state mental health institutes at Independence and Cherokee, the state resource center at Woodward, the state training school at Eldora, and the Iowa medical and classification center at Oakdale in administering the program, and requires that participating residents, and under the bill also the fellows, complete a portion of their psychiatry training at one of the state mental health institutes, the state resource center, the state training school, or the Iowa medical and classification center at Oakdale. However, residents may utilize clinical rotations at the UIHC and its affiliates across the state if accreditation-required clinical experiences are not available at the state facilities. The bill continues the requirement under the current program that preference in the awarding of residency positions, and under the bill also fellowship positions, shall be given to candidates 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 bill renames the existing program fund the psychiatry residency and fellowship program fund. Under the bill, for the fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2023, there is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the psychiatry residency and fellowship program fund $100,000 for each residency position approved and awarded under the program and $150,000 for each fellowship position approved and awarded under the program.