Friday, Governor Laura Kelly signed House Bill 2060, a bipartisan bill that will provide students with medical school financial assistance. HB 20-60 expands financial aid programs through the University of Kansas School of Medicine for students who practice primary care medicine or psychiatry in rural Kansas. Kelly says primary care physicians and psychiatric professionals are needed across the state and the Bill provides an opportunity for recent graduates to go into the field of medicine to meet the needs of Kansans while receiving relief from student loan debt incurred to become a medical professional.
The Bill doubles the number of available agreements for KU med students for the Kansas Medical Student Loan Program and adds obstetrics-gynecology to the list of allowable practice areas. It also authorizes the Kansas Board of Regents to award Osteopathic Medical Service Scholarships to Kansas residents who are undergraduate students enrolled in or admitted to pre-accredited schools of osteopathic medicine.
