Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration

Rural Residency Planning and Development Program

Who can apply

  • City or township governments
  • Tribal organizations
  • Independent school districts
  • Public and tribal housing authorities
  • Small businesses
  • State governments
  • For-profit organizations (not small businesses)
  • Public and state-controlled colleges
  • Private colleges and universities
  • County governments
  • Unrestricted
  • Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status
  • Federally recognized tribal governments
  • Others (see eligibility details)
  • Special district governments
  • Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status

Only domestic organizations are eligible. "Domestic" means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Faith-based organizations are eligible.

About this grant

The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program improves and expands rural health care access. It does this by developing new, accredited, sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). Newly created rural physician residency programs increase training and ultimately practice in rural areas to address physician shortages. The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties. Long-term sustainability funding must come from viable and stable sources, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private sources. Qualifying medical specialties are: Family medicine. Internal medicine. Psychiatry. General surgery. Obstetrics and gynecology. For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs: Are accredited physician residency programs. Train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency. Focus on preparing physicians to practice in rural communities.

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