Deadline: 20-Mar-2025
The Primary Care Training and Enhancement Residency Training in Street Medicine (PCTE-RTSM) Program is to enhance training in street medicine for residents enrolled in accredited primary care residency programs.
Awardees may use funds to support enrolled Graduate Medical Education (GME) residents.
Program Goal
- The goal of the PCTE-RTSM Program is to increase the number of physicians trained in a primary care specialty (i.e., family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and combined internal medicine-pediatrics) who are prepared to provide care for people experiencing homelessness, by bringing care to people outside of traditional clinical settings.
Program Objectives
- To accomplish the program goal, projects must meet the following objectives:
- Develop or enhance trainings, clinical rotations, and didactic and clinical curricula content to train residents in street medicine to provide sensitive and quality care for people experiencing homelessness. Attention to mental health and substance use disorders is expected.
- Increase residents’ knowledge and skills to meet the unique needs of people experiencing homelessness and assist patients with navigation of the medical, behavioral health, legal, and social support systems related to clinical care.
- Increase residents’ knowledge and skills to work in interprofessional teams, including chronic disease management, mental health, substance use, and medical-legal interprofessional teams, to address the SDoH that impact patient care.
Funding Information
- Expected total available funding in FY 2025: $9,500,000
- Funding range per award: Up to $500,000 per year.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply if your organization is an accredited public or nonprofit private hospital, school of medicine or osteopathic medicine, or a public or private nonprofit entity which the Secretary has determined is capable of carrying out such grant or contract, which for this NOFO is an entity that operates an ACGME-accredited primary care residency training program.
- If otherwise eligible, these types of domestic organizations may apply.
- Public institutions of higher education.
- Private nonprofit institutions of higher education.
- Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status.
- Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.
- To receive support under this program, a trainee must be enrolled in the ACGME accredited training program and be one of the following:
- A U.S. citizen or non-citizen national.
- An individual lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the United States.
- Any other “qualified alien” under section 431(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-193, as amended.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.