For the first year. approximately 500 scholarships and 200 fellowships would be offered at a total cost of $4.5 million. The number of scholarships and fellowships would be increased until by the 4th year 1.000 scholarships and 500 fellowships would be authorized. In addition to migrant areas. these areas may also be an isolated rural community. an Indian reservation. or a poverty area of a central city. The basic purposes of the bill are: First. to help with the physicianshortage problem in general. Second. to encourage and increase the number of individuals entering the family physician specialty in particular. Third. to attack the problem of the maldistribution of physicians by encour.aging the location of doctors in physicianshortage areas. Fourth. to increase the number of lower income and minority individuals in the medical profession. and Fifth. to tap the idealism. social commitment. and energies of youth to serve where the medical needs of the country are the greatest. Scholarship not to exceed $5.000 would be available to individuals agreeing to serve in physicianshortage or migrant areas. For each year of the scholarship. 1 year of service is required in a physicianshortage or migrant area. Two types of postgraduate fellowships. intern and residency. are also provided. Since attracting medical school graduates into physicianshortage areas for their graduate work is a desirable goal in itself. no additional service requirement is demanded under the fellowship program. The fellowship program. then. will assist in providing needed medical assistance to physicianshortage areas or to the migrant population. Since there is a correlation between practice location and the locatio of internship and residency programs. this fellowship program should be a positive influence in attracting and hopefully attaching the doctors to physicianshortage and migrant areas. As. an inducement to encourage those who have been in the scholarship program to continue in the fellowship program. a year of their service obligation under the scholarship program is eliminated for those who complete their postgraduate work in this manner. In keeping with the purposes of the measure. thefollowing priorities for selecting individuals for the scholarshipsand fellowshipsare provided: First. individuals from lower income families who reside in physicianshortage areas and who agree to return to those areas to practice.