Bill Text: IL HB4239 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Medical School Curriculum Act. Provides that, for medical students who, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, matriculate into a medical school that is subject to the Act, the minimum required curriculum shall also include a medical humanities course that covers, among other things, the effects of institutional racism on medical education, medical research, and medical care in the United States. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-16 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4239 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4239-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4239 Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 55/1 from Ch. 144, par. 54.11
Amends the Medical School Curriculum Act. Provides that, for medical students who, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, matriculate into a medical school that is subject to the Act, the minimum required curriculum shall also include a medical humanities course that covers, among other things, the effects of institutional racism on medical education, medical research, and medical care in the United States. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Medical School Curriculum Act is amended by
changing Section 1 as follows:
(110 ILCS 55/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 54.11)
Sec. 1. Each and every medical school established,
maintained and operated by the State of Illinois shall include
in the curriculum a department of general practice of medicine
under the direction and supervision of a qualified general
practitioner. The minimum requirements for the department
shall include courses of study in family care including
clinical experience, a program of preceptorships, a program of
internships or general practice residences in a hospital and
such other teaching techniques as in the judgment of the
management of the school shall be best suited to encourage and
implement the preparation of students for the general practice
of medicine. For students who, on or after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly,
matriculate into a medical school that is subject to this
Section, the minimum required curriculum shall also include a
medical humanities course that covers, among other things, the
effects of institutional racism on medical education, medical

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research, and medical care in the United States.
(Source: P.A. 76-1942.)