Opportunity Listing - Rural Residency Planning and Development Program

Rural Residency Planning and Development Program

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Assistance Listings: 93.155 -- Rural Health Research Centers

Last Updated: December 16, 2025

Description

The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program improves and expands rural health care access. It does this by developing new, accredited, sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). Newly created rural physician residency programs increase training and ultimately practice in rural areas to address physician shortages. The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties. Long-term sustainability funding must come from viable and stable sources, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private sources. Qualifying medical specialties are:

Family medicine.
Internal medicine.
Preventive medicine.
Psychiatry.
General surgery.
Obstetrics and gynecology.

style="margin-left:0px;">For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), 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 preparing physicians to practice in rural communities.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Government

State governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
County governments
Federally recognized Native American tribal governments

Miscellaneous

Other

Business

Small businesses
For-profit organizations other than small businesses

Nonprofit

Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
Other Native American tribal organizations

Education

Private institutions of higher education
Independent school districts
Public and state institutions of higher education

Additional information

Only domestic organizations are eligible. "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.

Grantor contact information

Description

Email

ruralresidency@hrsa.gov

Documents

No documents are currently available.

Link to additional information

Forecasted

Estimated Post Date:

February 16, 2026

Estimated Application Due Date:

May 15, 2026

Estimated Due Date Description:

Not available

Estimated Award Date:

July 1, 2026

Estimated Project Start Date:

August 1, 2026

Fiscal Year:

2026

Application process

This site is a work in progress. Go to www.grants.gov to apply, track application status, and subscribe to updates.

Award

$10,500,000

Program Funding

Expected awards

$--

Award Minimum

$750,000

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

HRSA-26-047

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

Category of Funding Activity:

Health

Category Explanation:

History

Version:

Forecast posted date:

December 11, 2025

Archive date:

June 15, 2026