March 31, 2023
Notice of Funding Opportunity – HRSA-23-003 – Health Careers Opportunity Program: The National HCOP Academies
Application due May 24, 2023
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP): National HCOP Academies – HRSA-23-003.
The purpose of the National HCOP Academies is to assist individuals from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and graduate from a health professions program. The National HCOP Academies funds programs that work to improve recruitment, matriculation, retention, and graduation rates by implementing tailored enrichment programs that address the academic and social needs of trainees from disadvantaged backgrounds. HCOP Academies also provide opportunities for community-based experiential health professions training, emphasizing experiences in underserved communities. A funding preference is available to applicants who partner with several public or private health or educational entities to establish, enhance, and expand educational programs that produce a competitive applicant pool of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Eligible applicants include:
- Accredited schools of medicine
- Osteopathic medicine
- Public health
- Dentistry
- Veterinary medicine
- Optometry
- Pharmacy
- Allied health
- Chiropractic
- Podiatric medicine
- Public and nonprofit private schools that offer graduate programs in behavioral and mental health, programs for the training of physician assistants
- Other public or private nonprofit health or educational entities including community colleges, technical colleges, and tribal colleges
- Accredited schools of medicine
- Osteopathic
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