[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR600.55]



[Page 195-196]

 

                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

PART 600_INSTITUTIONAL ELIGIBILITY UNDER THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 

1965, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents

 

Subpart E_Eligibility of Foreign Institutions To Apply To Participate in 

            the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Programs

 

Sec. 600.55  Additional criteria for determining whether a foreign 



graduate medical school is eligible to apply to participate in the 

FFEL programs.



    (a) The Secretary considers a foreign graduate medical school to be 

eligible to apply to participate in the FFEL programs if, in addition to 

satisfying the criteria in Sec. 600.54 (except the criterion that the 

institution be public or private nonprofit), the school satisfies all of 

the following criteria:

    (1) The school provides, and in the normal course requires its 

students to complete, a program of clinical and classroom medical 

instruction of not less that 32 months in length, that is supervised 

closely by members of the school's faculty and that is provided either--

    (i) Outside the United States, in facilities adequately equipped and 

staffed to afford students comprehensive clinical and classroom medical 

instruction; or

    (ii) In the United States, through a training program for foreign 

medical students that has been approved by all medical licensing boards 

and evaluating bodies whose views are considered relevant by the 

Secretary.

    (2) The school has graduated classes during each of the two twelve-

month periods immediately preceding the date the Secretary receives the 

school's request for an eligibility determination.

    (3) The school employs for the program described in paragraph (a)(1) 

of this section only those faculty members whose academic credentials 

are the equivalent of credentials required of faculty members teaching 

the same or similar courses at medical schools in the United States.

    (4)(i) The school has been approved by an accrediting body--

    (A) That is legally authorized to evaluate the quality of graduate 

medical school educational programs and facilities in the country where 

the school is located; and

    (B) Whose standards of accreditation of graduate medical schools--

    (1) Have been evaluated by the advisory panel of medical experts 

established by the Secretary; and

    (2) Have been determined to be comparable to standards of 

accreditation applied to medical schools in the United States; or

    (ii) The school is a public or private nonprofit educational 

institution that satisfies the requirements in Sec. 600.4(a)(5)(i).

    (5)(i)(A) During the academic year preceding the year for which any 

of the school's students seeks an FFEL program loan, at least 60 percent 

of those enrolled as full-time regular students in the school and at 

least 60 percent of the school's most recent graduating



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class were persons who did not meet the citizenship and residency 

criteria contained in section 484(a)(5) of the HEA, 20 U.S.C. 

1091(a)(5); and

    (B) For a foreign graduate medical school outside of Canada, at 

least 60 percent of the school's students and graduates who took any 

step of the examinations administered by the Educational Commission for 

Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (including the ECFMG English test) in 

the year preceding the year for which any of the school's students seeks 

an FFEL program loan received passing scores on the exams; or

    (ii) The school's clinical training program was approved by a State 

as of January 1, 1992, and is currently approved by that State.

    (b) In performing the calculation required in paragraph (a)(5)(i)(B) 

of this section, a foreign graduate medical school shall count as a 

graduate each person who graduated from the school during the three 

years preceding the year for which the calculation is performed.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1002, 1082)



[59 FR 22063, Apr. 28, 1994; 59 FR 33681, June 30, 1994, as amended at 

63 FR 40623, July 29, 1998; 64 FR 58616, Oct. 29, 1999; 69 FR 12275, 

Mar. 16, 2004]