February 5, 2025
Funding Opportunity: Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program, HRSA-25-007, Apply by April 10
The purpose of the Rural Residency Planning and development (RRPD) program, HRSA-25-007, is to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). These residency programs must achieve accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Newly created rural residency programs will increase the number of future physicians training in rural areas, and ultimately the number of physicians practicing in rural areas with the goal of addressing the physician workforce shortages in rural communities.
The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties that will be sustainable long-term through viable and stable funding mechanisms, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public funding sources.
Qualifying medical specialties are:
- Family medicine
- Internal medicine
- Preventive medicine
- Psychiatry
- General surgery
- Obstetrics and gynecology
Eligible Applicants:
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public or private institutions of higher education
- Rural Hospitals
- Rural community-based ambulatory patient care centers
Apply by April 10.
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