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Duma Passes Law Requiring Targeted Contracts for Budget-Funded Medical Residents

The measure targets workforce retention by tying publicly funded residents to employers through target contracts with structured mentorship plus periodic accreditation.

Overview

  • Students on state-funded residency tracks must, in their first academic year, sign a target training contract if offers are available and they meet an employer’s criteria.
  • Noncompliance triggers expulsion, with an option to transfer to fee-paying study, and the obligation is lifted if no suitable offers arrive by graduation.
  • Employers that fail to place graduates or graduates who skip required service owe compensation covering training costs of at least the first year.
  • The requirement also covers those restored to study, moved to state-funded places, or those whose prior target contract was terminated, with a one-year deadline to sign a new agreement.
  • Graduates enter mentorship for up to three years followed by periodic accreditation, and lack of required mentorship leads to a repeat of primary accreditation.