Section 127885.

The office shall maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program that shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a)  Producing and disseminating a series of publications aimed at informing and motivating minority and disadvantaged students to pursue health professional careers.

(b)  Conducting a conference series aimed at informing those students of opportunities in health professional training and mechanisms of successfully preparing to enter the training.

(c)  Providing support and technical assistance to health professional schools and colleges as well as to student and community organizations active in minority health professional development.

(d)  Conducting relevant manpower information and data analysis in the field of minority and disadvantaged health professional development.

(e)  Providing necessary consultation, recruitment, and counseling through other means.

(f)  Supporting and encouraging minority health professionals in training to practice in health professional shortage areas of California.

(g)  This section shall be implemented only to the extent that funds are appropriated for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or other statute.

(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 225, Sec. 19.5. Effective August 11, 2003.)