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[CITE: 38USC7472]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
              PART V--BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES
 
          CHAPTER 74--VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION--PERSONNEL
 
            SUBCHAPTER VI--REGIONAL MEDICAL EDUCATION CENTERS
 
Sec. 7472. Supervision and staffing of Centers

    (a) Centers shall be operated under the supervision of the Under 
Secretary for Health and shall be staffed with personnel qualified to 
provide the highest quality instruction and training in various medical 
and health care disciplines.
    (b) As a means of providing appropriate recognition to persons in 
the career service of the Administration who possess outstanding 
qualifications in a particular medical or health care discipline, the 
Under Secretary for Health shall from time to time and for such period 
as the Under Secretary for Health considers appropriate assign such 
persons to serve as visiting instructors at Centers.
    (c) Whenever the Under Secretary for Health considers it necessary 
for the effective conduct of the program provided for under this 
subchapter, the Under Secretary for Health may contract for the services 
of highly qualified medical and health personnel from outside the 
Department to serve as instructors at such Centers.

(Added Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 401(b)(5), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 
237; amended Pub. L. 102-405, title III, Sec. 302(c)(1), Oct. 9, 1992, 
106 Stat. 1984.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
section 4122 of this title prior to the repeal of that section as part 
of the complete revision of chapter 73 of this title by Pub. L. 102-40.


                               Amendments

    1992--Pub. L. 102-405 substituted ``Under Secretary for Health'' for 
``Chief Medical Director'' wherever appearing.
