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This law was first created in 2016. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 691<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1412467,"object_type":"law","relational_id":355614,"identifier":"23.1-903.2","token":"23.1\/II\/9\/2\/23.1-903.2","url":"\/23.1-903.2\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/23.1-903.2\/","token":"23.1\/II\/9\/2\/23.1-903.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Medical school; rotation requirement","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 23.1-903.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any public institution of higher education<\/span> that awards medical degrees shall create and support at least one clinical rotation in a hospital or clinic located in a medically underserved area of the state as determined by the Virginia Department of Health, in an area of the state that has an unemployment rate of one and one-half times the statewide average unemployment rate, or in a locality with a population of 50,000 or less in the Commonwealth.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMEDICAL SCHOOL; ROTATION REQUIREMENT (\u00a7 23.1-903.2)\n\nAny public institution of higher education that awards medical degrees shall\ncreate and support at least one clinical rotation in a hospital or clinic\nlocated in a medically underserved area of the state as determined by the\nVirginia Department of Health, in an area of the state that has an unemployment\nrate of one and one-half times the statewide average unemployment rate, or in a\nlocality with a population of 50,000 or less in the Commonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 2016, c. 691.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}