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[CITE: 36USC151902]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
            CHAPTER 1519--NATIONAL FUND FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION
 
Sec. 151902. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are to raise from private sources, 
administer, and disperse funds for medical education, and in carrying 
out those purposes, to take other appropriate action to promote--
        (1) the interpretation of the needs of medical education to the 
    American public;
        (2) the encouragement of the growth, development, and 
    advancement of constantly improving standards and methods in the 
    education and training of all medical personnel in the United 
    States; and
        (3) the preservation of academic freedom in the institutions of 
    medical education.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1408.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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151902................................  36:603.                          Aug. 2
8, 1954, ch. 1036, Sec.  3, 68
                                                                          Stat.
 892.
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    The words ``in carrying out those purposes'' are substituted for 
``in connection therewith'' for clarity. In clause (2), the word 
``personnel'' is substituted for ``manpower'' to use a word that is 
gender-neutral.
