Deadline: 18-Mar-2025
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) initiative improves and expands access to health care in rural areas by developing new, sustainable rural residency programs.
This initiative comprises two programs: the RRPD grants program, which funds organizations to create new, sustainable rural residency programs, and this RRPD technical assistance (TA) program. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to provide TA to organizations to create and sustain new rural residency programs that will expand the rural physician workforce.
Purpose
- HRSA’s Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) initiative improves and expands access to health care in rural areas by developing new, sustainable rural residency programs. This initiative comprises two programs: the RRPD grants program, which funds organizations to create new, sustainable rural residency programs, and this RRPD technical assistance (TA) program.
- The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to provide TA to organizations to create and sustain new rural residency programs that will expand the rural physician workforce. If you receive this award, you will provide TA, tools, and resources to organizations developing rural residency programs, such as RRPD award recipients and applicants, to help overcome the significant challenges and barriers they face.
- For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs:
- Are accredited physician residency programs.
- Train residents in rural training sites for greater than 50 percent of their time in residency.
- Focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities.
Objectives
- Promote the rural residency–to–rural workforce pathway by supporting the development of new rural residency programs in the following specialties:
- Family medicine.
- Internal medicine.
- Psychiatry.
- Obstetrics and gynecology.
- General surgery.
- Preventive medicine.
- Other specialties as determined by HRSA in future rural residency planning and development funding opportunities.
- Provide TA on topics, such as:
- Residency curriculum development.
- Faculty recruitment and development.
- Clinical and community partnerships.
- Program financial planning.
- Program administration.
- Help organizations establish and maintain new rural residency programs and become accredited by the ACGME.
- Help rural residency programs identify, qualify for, and secure (as applicable) Medicare graduate medical education (GME) funding and/or other sustainable pathways for funding, such as Medicaid, state, or private funding.
- Identify, track, analyze, and translate key policy, regulatory, and programmatic issues to inform rural residency programs and other rural GME stakeholders and policy makers about changes, knowledge gaps, or other challenges impacting rural residency programs and rural GME funding.
- Analyze the impact of rural residency activities and funding on rural communities (such as effects on the rural physician workforce), in consultation with HRSA.
- Promote rural residency training to medical students.
Funding Information
- Expected total available funding in FY 2025: $1,250,000
- Funding range per award: Up to $1,250,000 per year
- They plan to fund this award in five 12-month budget periods, for a total five-year period of performance from September 30, 2025, to September 29, 2030.
Eligibility Criteria
- These types of domestic organizations may apply:
- Public institutions of higher education.
- Private institutions of higher education.
- Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status.
- For-profit organizations, including small businesses.
- State, county, city, township, and special district governments, including the District of Columbia, domestic territories, and freely associated states.
- Independent school districts.
- Native American tribal governments.
- Native American tribal organizations.
- Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.