Health Workforce Programs

Purpose: Improve access and delivery of primary care services by increasing the number of primary care physician assistants.

Purpose: Develop and implement clinical rotations for physician assistant students in primary care in rural areas.

Purpose: Train primary care residents in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and referral of services for mental and behavioral health conditions.

Purpose: Provide support to entities providing health care, health care providers associations, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), taking into consideration the needs of rural and medically underserved communities, to establish, enhance, or expand evidence informed or evidenced-based programs or protocols to promote resilience, mental health, and wellness among their providers, other personnel, and members, collectively known as the “health workforce.”

Purpose: Support organizations to develop scholarship programs that incentivize individuals to pursue careers in public health.

Purpose: Strengthen the public health workforce through tailored training and technical assistance through collaborative community-based projects.

Purpose: Improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new, sustainable rural residency programs or rural track programs that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACMGE) to address the physician workforce shortages and challenges faced by rural communities.

Purpose: Train and provide support to postdoctoral health care professionals who are planning to pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral health research related to primary care.

Purpose: Support the training of residents in primary care residency training programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers.

Purpose: Create new community-based residency programs or rural residency training tracks to increase the primary care physician workforce in rural communities.