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This bill modifies the definitions within Minnesota's health professional education loan forgiveness program by expanding the eligible specialties for medical residents and physicians. Specifically, the bill adds emergency medicine as a qualifying medical residency and physician specialty, alongside existing specialties like family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. By including hospitalist medicine for physicians, the bill broadens the potential pool of medical professionals who can participate in the loan forgiveness program. The bill amends an existing statute that defines various healthcare professional categories and establishes criteria for loan forgiveness, with the goal of potentially attracting more healthcare providers to work in underserved areas or settings by offering educational loan repayment assistance. This modification may help address healthcare workforce shortages by providing an additional incentive for medical professionals in these newly included specialties to practice in Minnesota.

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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF3133&ssn=0&y=2025