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Rural Residency Planning and Development Technical Assistance (RRPD-TA) Program
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Assistance Listings: 93.155 -- Rural Health Research Centers
Last Updated: January 17, 2025
Funding opportunity
Summary
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:
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Are accredited physician residency programs.
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Train residents in rural training sites for greater than 50 percent of their time in residency.
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Focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities.
This includes programs that meet the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Rural Track Program (RTP) designation, including both new programs seeking accreditation and existing programs that apply for a permanent complement increase to train additional residents at new rural training site(s).
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Private institutions of higher education
State governments
Special district governments
Other
Other Native American tribal organizations
Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Small businesses
Independent school districts
Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
County governments
Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
City or township governments
Additional information
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. * Domestic means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.
Grantor contact information
Description
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
JSteele@hrsa.gov
Email
Contact Jason Steele at (301)443-2203 or email JSteele@hrsa.gov
