R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 788: MEDICAL BURSARIES"

R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 788: MEDICAL BURSARIES, Ministry of Health Act

Ministry of Health Act

R.R.O. 1990, REGULATION 788

Amended to O. Reg. 611/91

MEDICAL BURSARIES

Note: This Regulation became spent on October 10, 1997.

This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.

1. In this Regulation,

“accredited” means, in reference to a medical school, accredited at the date of the applicant’s application, by a national accrediting agency in Canada that is acceptable to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; (“accréditée”)

“applicant” means an applicant for a bursary; (“auteur de la demande”)

“bursary” means an award to assist in the financing of an academic year of undergraduate education and training in medicine at a university in Ontario or an accredited medical school in Canada, other than in Ontario; (“bourse d’études”)

“designated locality” means a locality designated by the Minister as being acceptable for the purposes of practice at the time when the applicant is to commence the one-year period of practice; (“localité désignée”)

“medical school” means a school or faculty of medicine but does not include any school, college or faculty of stomatology, homeopathy, osteopathy or podiatry; (“école de médecine”)

“resident” means a person who is legally entitled to remain in Canada and who makes his or her home and is ordinarily present in Ontario, but does not include a tourist, a transient or a visitor to Ontario. (“résident”) R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 788, s. 1.

2. A bursary of $7,500 may be provided to an applicant who is a resident of Ontario for his or her second-last or last undergraduate academic year, where the applicant,

(a) submits an application therefor in writing to the Minister, in a form provided by the Minister; and

(b) provides the Minister with an undertaking set out in section 3 or 4, as the case may be. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 788, s. 2.

3. Where a bursary is the first bursary being provided to an applicant under section 2, the undertaking required by clause 2 (b) is an undertaking that, in consideration of his or her being provided with the bursary,

(a) the applicant will commence an internship or residency program in Canada that is acceptable to the Minister, immediately following the date on which he or she is granted a degree in medicine;

(b) the applicant will successfully complete the internship or residency program referred to in clause (a);

(c) the applicant will commence the practice of medicine in a designated locality within six months after successful completion of the internship or residency program referred to in clause (a) and will continue practice for a period of one year;

(d) if the applicant,

(i) does not successfully complete the academic year for which the bursary was received,

(ii) having successfully completed the academic year, where the bursary is for the second-last academic year, discontinues the program of education and training before completing the last academic year,

(iii) having been granted a degree in medicine, does not immediately thereafter commence the internship or residency program referred to in clause (a),

(iv) does not successfully complete the internship or residency program referred to in clause (a), or

(v) having successfully completed the internship or residency program referred to in clause (a), does not within six months thereafter commence the practice of medicine as set out in clause (c),

the applicant will forthwith upon demand repay the bursary together with the interest set out in section 5; and

(e) if the applicant discontinues practising medicine as set out in clause (c) at any time before the end of the one-year period, he or she will forthwith upon demand repay a portion of the bursary proportional to the number of months remaining in the one-year period, not including the month in which he or she discontinued practising, together with the interest set out in section 5. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 788, s. 3.

4. Where a bursary is the second bursary being provided to an applicant under section 2, the undertaking required by clause 2 (b) is an undertaking that, in consideration of being provided with the bursary,

(a) the applicant will commence an internship or residency program referred to in clause 3 (a) immediately following the date on which he or she is granted a degree in medicine;

(b) the applicant will successfully complete the internship or residency program referred to in clause 3 (a);

(c) the applicant will practise medicine in a designated locality for a period of one year commencing immediately completing the one-year period of medical practice required in respect of his or her first bursary;

(d) if the applicant,

(i) does not successfully complete the academic year for which the bursary was received,

(ii) having been granted a degree in medicine, does not immediately thereafter commence the internship or residency program referred to in clause 3 (a),

(iii) does not successfully complete the internship or residency program referred to in clause 3 (a),

(iv) does not commence or complete the one-year period of medical practice required in respect of his or her first bursary, or

(v) having completed the one-year period of medical practice required in respect of the first bursary, does not immediately thereafter commence the further one-year period of medical practice as set out in clause (c),

the applicant will forthwith upon demand repay the bursary together with the interest set out in section 5; and

5. The interest mentioned in sections 3 and 4 is interest calculated monthly on the first day of each month at a rate equivalent to one-twelfth of the Bank of Canada rate that prevails on the last day of the preceding month as set out in the Bank of Canada Weekly Financial Statistics and applied from the date that the applicant receives the bursary. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 788, s. 5.