Rural Residency Planning and Development Program
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Assistance Listings: 93.746 -- Rural Residency Development Program
Last Updated: June 5, 2026
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.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
Miscellaneous
- Other
Business
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
Education
- Independent school districts
- Public and state institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
Nonprofit
- Other Native American tribal organizations
- Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
- Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
Government
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
- Special district governments
- State governments
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. Faith-based organizations are eligible.
Grantor contact information
Description
Jason Steele
ruralresidency@hrsa.gov
ruralresidency@hrsa.gov
Documents
| File name | Description | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| HRSA-26-047_Final.pdf | HRSA-26-047_Final.pdf | Jun 22, 2026 06:11 PM UTC |
| TA_Webinar_Announcement_HRSA-26-047.pdf | TA Webinar Announcement HRSA-26-047 | Jun 8, 2026 01:17 PM UTC |
Link to additional information
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Closing: July 8, 2026
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.
Award
$11,250,000
Program Funding
15
Expected awards
$--
Award Minimum
$750,000
Award Maximum
Funding opportunity number:
HRSA-26-047
Cost sharing or matching requirement:
No
Funding instrument type:
Grant
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
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Category of Funding Activity:
Health
Category Explanation:
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History
Version:
1
Posted date:
June 5, 2026
Archive date:
August 8, 2026
