Cal. Health & Safety Code § 128560
California Reproductive Health Service Corps
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Current — January 1, 2023
As of January 1, 2013
(a) There is hereby established within the Health Professions Education Foundation, the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program.
(b) It is the intent of this article that the foundation and the office provide the ongoing program management for the program.
For purposes of this article:
(a) “Corps” means the California Reproductive Health Service Corps established pursuant to Section 128561.
(b) “Reproductive health” means health services relating to abortion care, sexual health counseling, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, reproductive tract infections, HIV, gynecology, perinatal care, midwifery care, gender affirming care, and gender-based violence prevention.
(c) “Reproductive health care professionals” means medical doctors, licensed midwives, certified nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, physician’s assistants, doulas, licensed vocational nurses, community health workers, medical assistants, and pharmacists.
(d) “Scholar” means a person in the corps who is a student who has been accepted in a school or a program on a part-time or full-time basis that graduates reproductive health care professionals or who is an existing reproductive health professional who desires more training and professional development in abortion care to provide this service.
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