Assistance program
Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Clinician Educator Career Development Awards
$19.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Health Resources and Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.976
- What it does
- The goal of the career development awards is to support the development and training of primary care medicine and dentistry junior faculty who plan to teach in family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, physician assistant education programs, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, or dental public health and innovative projects that involve the transformation of health care delivery systems.
- Who benefits
- Eligible junior faculty candidates (Project Directors/Principal Investigators) are identified individuals who are applying to HRSA for a clinician educator faculty award through the applicant organization. Candidates must hold a non-tenured faculty appointment (i.e., be a junior faculty such as instructor or assistant professor) before the award is made. The faculty appointment must not be contingent on receipt of the award.
- Who applies
- Applicant Eligibility: Eligible applicant organizations include schools of allopathic or osteopathic medicine, academically affiliated physician assistant training programs, dental and dental hygiene schools, accredited public or nonprofit private hospitals, or a public or nonprofit private entity that the Secretary has determined is capable of carrying out such grants. If the applicant organization is not a medical school, physician assistant training program, dental or dental hygiene school, they must be affiliated with one of the listed schools or training programs and provide a letter of agreement from the relevant organization. Faith-based and community-based organizations, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Government and Native American Organizations may apply for these funds, if otherwise eligible.
- Authorized by
- Sections 747(a) and 748 of the Public Health Service Act
- Program site
- http://www.hrsa.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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