Section 590.230  Terms of Performance

a)         Each scholarship recipient shall sign a written contract (See Appendix A). The contract contains additional terms and conditions which ensure compliance with this Part, the laws of the State of Illinois, and enforcement of the contract.

b)         Scholarship recipients who fail to complete medical school due to academic failure, as documented by recipient's school, shall be discharged from all obligations.

c)         Scholarship recipients who fail to complete medical school due to voluntary actions on their part shall repay to the Department all scholarship monies. Repayment shall be made in such a manner as agreed to by the recipient and the Department in the recipient's contract (See Appendix A).

d)         In the event the scholarship recipient is disabled or is otherwise unable for reasons beyond the recipient's control to perform the scholarship's obligations, these obligations shall be suspended until such time as the scholarship recipient is able to resume the scholarship obligations. Such suspension shall be requested in writing by the scholarship recipient. The Department's acceptance or denial of the suspension request will be provided in writing, under the Director's signature. The Department shall accept a request for a suspension when supported by a letter from the recipient's physician attesting to the recipient's inability (either temporarily or permanently) to continue (either school or the practice of medicine) and the recipient's agreeing to not continue either his or her medical education (or the practice of medicine) in any state.

e)         Scholarship recipients who in their third year of medical school seek a residency training program in other than a primary care specialty shall have their eligibility for scholarship funds for their final year of medical school suspended until such time as the residency matching process is complete.

1)         If the recipient is notified by the National Resident Matching Program, or directly by a residency not participating in the National Resident Matching Program, of acceptance into a non-primary care residency, no funds shall be provided for the final year of medical education, and all funds provided by the Department to the student shall be due in full, immediately.

2)         If the recipient has requested a non-primary care residency but is matched to a primary care residency instead and agrees to the match, scholarship funds for the final year of medical education shall again be made available.

f)          Misrepresentation of the facts presented in the recipient's application shall be considered a breach of contract. The recipient's school shall be notified to halt further disbursements of scholarship funds and all funds provided by the Department to the student shall be due in full, immediately.