Rural Primary Care Residency Training Grant Program
The Rural Primary Care Residency Training Grant Program, authorized by Minnesota Statutes Section 144.1507, awards grants to eligible programs to plan, implement, and sustain rural primary care residency training programs. Grants support programs with costs such as planning and development, obtaining accreditation, recruiting and training residents and faculty, and improving training sites. The program is designed to increase training opportunities in rural Minnesota, with the goal of strengthening the rural primary care physician workforce.
Eligible applicants are programs, sponsors, and potential sponsors of rural primary care residency programs located in Minnesota. Program partners such as clinical training sites are eligible applicants for program sustainability funds. Eligible programs:
Train, or propose to train, medical residents in:
A new rural residency training program,
A new rural residency training track within an existing residency program, or
A community-based ambulatory care center that primarily serves the underserved and is proposing to add a rural residency training program or track.
Train, or propose to train, medical residents in the following primary care specialties:
Family medicine,
General internal medicine,
General pediatrics,
General surgery,
Geriatrics, or
Psychiatry.
Are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or present a credible plan to obtain accreditation.
An estimated $1,500,000-2,000,000 will be available to grant this cycle. Funds will be distributed in approximately two or three awards, with an estimated maximum award amount of $250,000 per year for Planning and Development Projects and $225,000 per resident per year for Sustaining Program Projects.
Deadline is November 8, 2024.
