The Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 extends health manpower training authorities through FY 1980 with significant changes to meet national needs. It is designed to produce more primary care practitioners and improve health services in manpower shortage areas, providing support for the training of health professions (medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry), public health, and allied health manpower. This report reviews the provisions of the act that pertain to: capitation; health professions special projects; construction assistance; student assistance; foreign medical graduates; allied health programs; public health and health administration programs; and other significant provisions such as funding priority, authority delegation, shortage areas, health manpower data, tuition increases, shared residency positions, bicultural awareness, and records and audits. (LBH)