Assistance program
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Expansion of Physician Assistant Training Program
-$14,666 committed in FY2018–FY2018
- Agency
- Health Resources and Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.514
- What it does
- The Expansion of Physician Assistant Training Program is a five-year initiative to increase the number of physician assistants in the primary care workforce. Grantees are physician assistant education programs that commit to sustaining an increased number of new first year students for five consecutive years. Awards facilitate this expansion by supporting higher enrollment by funding new student stipends, educational expenses, reasonable living expenses, and indirect costs.
- Who benefits
- Newly enrolled, full time physician assistant students in an accredited physician assistant education program who intend to work or teach in a primary care discipline after graduation. Project participants (students) must be U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals, or foreign nationals who possess visas permitting permanent residence in the United States. Individuals on temporary student visas are not eligible.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include public or nonprofit academically affiliated physician assistant education programs whose purpose is to educate individuals that will be qualified to provide primary care medical services under the supervision of a physician. Applicants must be accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Government and Native American Organizations may apply if they are otherwise eligible.
- Authorized by
- Section 747 of the Public Health Service Act; and the Public Health Prevention Act Section 4002, Conference Report, H. Rept. 111-366, Division D (referencing S. Rept. 111-66), accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010, Public Law 111-117
- Program site
- http://www.hrsa.gov ↗
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