New Funding Available from FORHP

Read this in your browser January 13, 2025   New Funding Available: Rural Residency Planning and Development Program Apply by April 10, 2025 The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program is open and accepting applications for the program's 3-year period of performance (August 1, 2025 - July 31, 2028).  HRSA will make up to 15 awards, each up to $750,000, to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private, nonprofit or for-profit, entities. Applicants must propose a new rural residency program in a qualifying medical specialty. Qualifying medical specialties are family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. For this notice of funding opportunity, 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 producing physicians who will practice in rural communities. Successful RRPD Program awardees will: 1) Develop a new rural residency program that is accredited by Accreditation Council for Graduated Medical Education; 2) Finalize a  sustainability plan, which includes  ongoing funding streams to sustain long-term resident training after  program establishment; and 3) Develop a plan to track and publicly report on resident career outcomes after graduation for at least 5 years after the first graduating class to assess retention in rural communities. A technical assistance webinar via Zoom will be held for applicants on Wednesday, Jan 23 at 2:00 pm Eastern.    A list of previously funded grants under this program are available at this link.  Applicants may also benefit from the resources and tools available in the RuralGME.org portal (registration required).     For more information about this funding opportunity, contact the rural residency inbox at ruralresidency@hrsa.gov.   Helpful links Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov Profiles of current and past RRDP Program grantees Rural GME.org The Announcements from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy are distributed weekly. If this message was forwarded and you'd like to receive it directly, sign up for Rural Health Updates through HRSA Email Subscriptions.      Sign up for eNews More HRSA email updates / Unsubscribe  |  Help  Health Resources and Services Administration 5600 Fishers Lane | Rockville, MD 20857 This email was sent to myhcistech.healthnews360@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: HRSA · 5600 Fishers Lane · Rockville, MD 20857