NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 945

HOUSE BILL 778

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A PUBLIC HEALTH RESIDENCY PROGRAM WITHIN THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.

 

Whereas, there is an extreme shortage of and a continuously decreasing number of practicing public health physicians and dentists in North Carolina; and

Whereas, the State of North Carolina urgently needs the services of physicians and dentists well trained in the field of public health for the continued upgrading of public health services to her citizens, and the promotion and protection of the public health; and

Whereas, the State of North Carolina is without a program providing residency training in the specialty of public health practices; and

Whereas, the physical facilities and manpower resources for such training are available through the North Carolina Department of Human Resources and the local health departments in the State; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 130 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding the following section thereto:

"§ 130-9.1.  Residencies in public health. — There shall be established within the North Carolina Department of Human Resources a residency program designed to attract physicians and dentists into the field of public health and to train them in the specialty of public health practice. The program shall include practical experience in public health principles and practices, such experience to be gained through exposure to specific work situations in the Department of Human Resources and local health departments in the State."

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the North Carolina Department of Human Resources a sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for fiscal year 1975-76 and a sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for fiscal year 1976-77 for the purpose of establishing a residency program in public health practice. These funds are in addition to all other funds appropriated to the department.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.