Description:
These grants support the education and training of health professions students in rural underserved communities and improve access to health care in rural areas. To address the needs of the rural health professions workforce, this program funds student stipends and interdisciplinary training projects that: (1) use new and innovative methods to train health care practitioners to provide services in rural areas; (2) demonstrate and evaluate innovative interdisciplinary methods and models designed to provide access to cost-effective comprehensive health care; (3) deliver health care services to individuals residing in rural areas; (4) enhance the amount of relevant research conducted concerning health care issues in rural areas; and (5) increase the recruitment and retention of health care practitioners in rural areas and make rural practice a more attractive career choice for health care practitioners.
*This program is not included in the Presidents budget for FY 2005. Potential applicants for funds should consider this announcement provisional until final Congressional action on appropriations is taken. Updated information on Congressional action on appropriations will be available on the HRSA website.
Who can apply:
Eligible functional categories:
Funding Sources:
Quentin N. Burdick Programs for Rural Interdisciplinary Training
More Information:
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=61ADB686-59E2-4310-A984-5137DF713AB2
If you have problems accessing the full announcement, please contact:
Worrell, Mary
Address Info:
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HRSA Grants Application Center, 901 Russell Avenue Suite 450, Gaithersburg, MD, 20879