Public Health Service Act Medical Education Amendments of 1985

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Public Health Service Act Medical Education Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a registry of teaching hospitals. Requires such hospitals to enter into a cooperative agreement with: (1) a school of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education; or (2) a school of osteopathy accredited by the Bureau of Professional Education of the American Osteopathic Association. Provides that the cooperative agreement shall include provisions requiring such hospitals to comply with regulations establishing a minimum percentage of graduate medical education positions in primary care specialties. Directs the Council on Graduate Medical Education (established by this Act) to recommend to the Secretary such minimum percentage for a four-fiscal-year period. Requires the Secretary to establish by regulation the minimum percentage recommended by the Council. Requires the establishment of such minimum percentages every four years. Specifies the types of positions which are considered primary care specialties (in internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and obstetrics/gynecology). Exclude…