The Primary Care Residency Expansion Grant Program supports the establishment of new primary care residency programs or the training of eligible residents in newly created residency positions within existing programs in Minnesota.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/05/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
This grant program was created to address the shortage of primary care physicians in many areas of the state, with the goal of increasing access to primary care for rural and underserved communities.
Funding Information
- The Minnesota Legislature has appropriated $1,900,000 in grant funds for fiscal year 2026.
- Estimated Award Maximum $400,000.
- Estimated Award Minimum $75,000.
Grant Period
March 1, 2026 to June 30, 2029.
Eligible Expenses
Grant funds may be used for:
- Planning related to establishing an accredited primary care residency program
- Obtaining accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or another national body that accredits residency programs
- Establishing new residency programs or new resident training slots
- Recruitment, training, and retention of new primary care residents and faculty
- Travel and lodging for new primary care residents
- Salary and fringe for new primary care residents, as well as faculty and preceptors related to new residency slots
- Training site improvements, fees, equipment, and supplies required for new primary care resident training slots
- Supporting clinical education in which primary care residents are part of a primary care team model.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are programs, sponsors, and potential sponsors of primary care residency positions that fulfill all the following criteria:
- Located in Minnesota and train, or propose to train, medical residents in Minnesota.
- Train, or propose to train, medical residents in the following primary care specialties:
- Family medicine
- General internal medicine
- General pediatrics
- Psychiatry (including child psychiatry fellowships)
- Geriatrics
- General surgery.
- Demonstrate current accreditation by and compliance with the Institutional and Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in the specialties listed above of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or submit a credible plan to obtain accreditation.
- Propose to plan or implement one or more new primary care residency slots.
- Applicants that currently train residents must document the baseline number of residents in the eligible specialty and agree to maintain that baseline number of residents as well as the new resident(s) to be supported with grant funding.
- Agree to verify the number of residents in the program each year to continue to receive funds.
For more information, visit MDH.
