SOURCE: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Feb. 3, 2022 by 6:30 p.m. CT.
$ AVAILABLE: Up to $50,000 in exchange for a two-year commitment.
ELIGIBILITY: You qualify if you are:
• A United States citizen (U.S. born or naturalized).
• A provider (or eligible to participate as a provider) in the Medicare, Medicaid, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
• Eligible for federal employment.
• Fully trained and licensed to practice in the NHSC-eligible primary care medical, dental, or mental/behavioral health discipline and state in which you are applying to serve.
• A health professional in an eligible discipline with qualified student loan debt for education that led to your degree.
• Working at an NHSC-approved site.
Please see URL for additional eligibility requirements.
PURPOSE: The NHSC Loan Repayment Program (LRP) seeks primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, physician assistants, dentists, dental hygienists, and behavioral/mental health providers (psychiatrists, health service psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurse specialists, and licensed professional counselors) to provide culturally competent, interdisciplinary primary health care services to underserved populations located in designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). In return this program assists clinicians with repayment of their outstanding qualifying educational loans.
CFDA: 93.162
CONTACT: Please see URL for multiple contacts. For more information, go to nhsc.hrsa.gov/loan-repayment.
From NHSC website, accessed Dec. 10, 2021.
Subject(s): health professions training, nursing, rural health, scholarships.