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 Scholarship Program
Purpose: Provide scholarships to students pursuing primary care health professions training in return for a commitment to provide primary health services in a Health Professional Shortage Area.
National Health Service Corps Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (NHSC S2S LRP)
Purpose: Provide loan repayment to students in their last year of school pursuing a degree in allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, physician assistant studies, nursing, or dentistry. In exchange for loan repayment, individuals agree to provide primary health services in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of greatest need.
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).
Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP)
Purpose: Provide federal financial support for Native Hawaiians who are students at health professions schools, in return for a commitment to provide primary health services to the Native Hawaiian population in the State of Hawaii.
Preventive Medicine Residency (PMR) Program
Purpose: Increase the number, quality, and diversity of preventive medicine residents and physicians to support access to preventive medicine and to integrate population health with primary care to improve the health of communities.
Primary Care Loans (PCL)
Purpose: Assist accredited public schools and educational intuitions in offering low-interest loans to degree-seeking students in the health care field.
Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE): Community Prevention and Maternal Health (CPMH)
Purpose: Train primary care physicians in maternal health care to improve maternal health outcomes.
Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE): Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care Program (IBHPC)
Purpose: Support training programs that integrate behavioral health care into primary care with a special emphasis on treating opioid use disorder.