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Minnesota Rural Family Medicine Residency Grant Program

This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will open again in the future.

Sponsor
Minnesota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Deadlines
Letter of Intent (Required): Nov 8, 2023
Application: Nov 27, 2023
Purpose

The Family Medicine Residency Grant Program assists Family Medicine Residency programs outside the 7-county Minnesota Twin Cities metropolitan area by supporting costs associated with training eligible residents.

Grant funds may be used for:

  • Direct funding of family medicine resident, faculty, and preceptor salaries and fringe
  • Funding of training sites, for costs directly associated with the training of residents
  • Recruitment, training, and retention of residents and faculty
  • Contractual services
  • Travel and lodging for residents
  • Other costs directly related to establishing, maintaining, or expanding training for family medicine residents
  • Equipment purchases

Priority will be given to:

  • How the project will increase access to primary care services for rural communities
  • How the applicant incorporates health equity and cultural responsiveness training for residents
  • How the program will sustain the residency positions over the long term
Eligibility

Eligible applicants are family medicine residency programs that fulfill all of the following criteria:

  1. Are located in Minnesota, but outside the 7-county metropolitan area (defined by statute as Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington counties)
  2. Focus on training family medicine physicians to serve communities outside the 7-county metropolitan area
  3. Can demonstrate that at least 25% of graduates from the last 3 calendar years currently practice in Minnesota communities outside the 7-county metropolitan area
  4. Have current accreditation and compliance with the Institutional and Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Family Medicine, of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Geographic coverage
Minnesota
Amount of funding

Award ceiling: $400,000
Estimated number of awards: 3-4
Estimated total program funding: $1,000,000

Application process

Links to additional guidance and application instructions are available on the program website.

Email completed applications to health.cyshn@state.mn.us.

Step 1 applications must be submitted by November 8, 2023. Step 2 applications must be submitted by November 27, 2023.

Tagged as
Graduate medical education · Health workforce education and training · Physicians · Minnesota

Organizations (1)

  • Minnesota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, view details



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