Deadline: 21-May-21
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Technical Assistance (RRPD-TA) Program.
The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to provide technical assistance (TA) to HRSA’s RRPD Program award recipients to support the creation of new rural residency programs that will expand the rural physician workforce.
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, rural residencies are allopathic and osteopathic physician residency programs in specialties as determined by HRSA that primarily train residents in rural clinical settings and focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities.
Rural residencies may be rurally located or integrated with a separately accredited program within a larger, urban residency program, also known as a rural training track (RTT).
Program Objectives
- Promote the rural residency-to-rural workforce pipeline by supporting the development of new rural residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, OB/GYN, general surgery, preventive medicine, and other specialties as determined by HRSA in future NOFOs.
- TA provided may include assistance in curriculum development, faculty recruitment and development, clinical and community partnerships, and program administration;
- Support RRPD Program award recipients’ efforts to establish and maintain new rural residency programs and achieve program accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME);
- Assist with identifying, qualifying for, and securing (as applicable) Medicare graduate medical education (GME) funding and/or other sustainable pathways of funding rural residencies such as Medicaid, state, or private funding;
- Identify, track, analyze, and translate key policy, regulatory, and programmatic issues to inform RRPD Program award recipients and other rural stakeholders about changes, knowledge gaps, or other challenges impacting rural residency programs and rural GME funding;
- Analyze overall impact of the RRPD-TA and RRPD Program activities and funding on rural communities (e.g., rural physician workforce) in consultation with HRSA; and
- Promote rural residency training to medical students.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,300,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are domestic public or private, non-profit entities, including faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes and tribal organizations, institutions of higher education, state and local governments, and hospitals.
- Recipients of the RRPD Program (HRSA-19-088 and HRSA-20-107) are not eligible to receive funding under this notice. Similarly, the RRPD-TA award recipient will not be eligible for funding under the RRPD Program, contingent on future funding opportunities.
- Entities must have the capability to be national in scope (i.e., much broader than a local, multi-state, or regional focus) to reflect the distribution of current and future RRPD cohorts.
- HRSA strongly encourages the applicant organization to have partnerships and/or establish and sustain a consortium to fulfil the full range of activities outlined in this notice.
- HRSA will consider any application that exceeds the ceiling amount non-responsive and will not consider it for funding under this notice.
- Multiple applications from an organization are not allowable.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332764