National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (NHSC LRP)
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, dental, and behavioral/mental health clinicians in eligible communities of need designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Health Workforce Programs
Our workforce programs help strengthen the health workforce and connect skilled health care providers to communities in need, improving the health of people who need it most.
We offer scholarship, loan, and loan repayment programs to individuals and award grants to organizations (For example, schools, hospitals, health departments).
National Health Service Corps Rural Community Loan Repayment Program (NHSC Rural Community LRP)
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials to provide evidence-based substance use disorder treatment in rural Health Professional Shortage Areas.
National Health Service Corps Substance Use Disorder Workforce Loan Repayment Program (NHSC SUD Workforce LRP)
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials to provide evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and counseling in eligible Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
Purpose: Expand the number of fellows at accredited addiction medicine fellowship (AMF) and addiction psychiatry fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorder and substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services. The program encompasses both psychiatry and an addiction subspecialty for primary care doctors.
Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)
Purpose: Develop and enhance education and training networks within communities, academic institutions, and community-based organizations.
Centers of Excellence Program (COE)
Purpose: Improve access to culturally appropriate health care by increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who enter and graduate from health professions training programs.
Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment (CHGME) Program
Purpose: Educate and prepare the pediatric health workforce to serve children and innovate in the area of pediatrics to compensate for the disparity in the level of federal graduate medical education funding for freestanding children’s teaching hospitals versus other types of teaching hospitals.
Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP)
Purpose: Provide loan repayment assistance to faculty members from economically and environmentally disadvantaged backgrounds with eligible health professions degrees or certificates to serve at eligible academic institutions.
Health Professions Student Loans (HPSL)
Purpose: Assist accredited public schools and educational intuitions in offering low-interest loans to degree-seeking students in the health care field.
Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training Program (ISTP)
Purpose: Expand the number of practicing professionals to provide addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery services in underserved communities.