Health Manpower Act

Health Manpower Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act.

Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1977 for such purposes.

Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools.

Prescribes new procedures for the establishment of National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and asssignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physican and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population.

Details the reporting requirements by the Secretary to the Congress in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps.

Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974-1977 for carrying out this section.

Revises the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligibility requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required.

Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth new computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorization of, appropriations for the making of such grants.

States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances from each type of school, including assurances as to the enrollment of each school, are met. Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1977.

Authorizes appropriations of $30,000,000, $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977 respectively for the establishment of area health education centers.

Title V: Assistance for Specialized Training - Authorizes appropriations for three fiscal years for grants for: (1) training, traineeships, and fellowships in family medicine; and (2) for computer technology health care demonstration programs.

Provides for the education of returning United States students from foreign medical schools and authorizes appropriations for such educational programs in schools of medicine and osteopathy.

Empowers the Secretary to make grants for projects: (1) to research advances in fields related to education, and (2) to plan experimental teaching programs. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes.

Title VI: Public and Allied Health Personnel - Revises the training programs for public and community health personnel and allied health personnel, extending appropriations through fiscal year 1977.

Title VII: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to contract for a study analyzing the current distribution of physicians by specialty, projecting such analysis for 1980, 1985, and 1990, and examining and developing a method for establishing the optimal distribution of physicians by geographic area.

Requires the Secretary to make specified quality assurances to the Congress regarding education and training of allied health personnel. Calls for an allied health personnel study, detailing the contents of such study, including identification of classifications in which there are a critical shortage of personnel.