The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration
Country: U.S.
State: All States
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 12/21/2021
Size of the Grant: $750,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to improve health care in rural areas by developing new, accredited, and sustainable rural residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology, to support expansion of the physician workforce in rural communities. For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, rural residencies are allopathic and osteopathic physician residency programs that primarily train residents in rural clinical settings for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency, and focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities.
The new rural residency programs will: (1) achieve accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for the eligible specialties, (2) ensure program sustainability through public or private funding beyond the RRPD period of performance, and (3) track residents’ career outcomes postgraduation, including but not limited to retention in rural communities.
This grant program and the RRPD-Technical Assistance Program are complementary and seek to expand the number of new rural residency training programs and subsequently increase the number of physicians choosing to practice in rural areas. Funding will support planning and development costs accrued while achieving program accreditation.
Program Objectives
- Objective 1: Residency Program Development
- Objective 2: Program Sustainability
- Objective 3: Graduate Tracking Plan
Funding Information
- You may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $750,000 total cost (includes both direct and indirect, facilities and administrative costs) for the entire 3-year period of performance.
- The period of performance is August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025 (3 years).
Eligible Entities
Eligible entities are domestic public, nonprofit, or private organizations, including faithbased and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations. Specifically, these organizations may include, but are not limited to:
- rural hospitals;
- rural community-based ambulatory patient care centers, including rural health clinics;
- health centers operated by a tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization;
- graduate medical education consortiums, including schools of allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine; and
- faith-based and community-based organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
