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HRSA-26-047: Rural Residency Planning and Development Program

Closed Closed July 8, 2026 Opportunity HRSA-26-047 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is forecast: Rural Residency Planning and Development Program (HRSA-27-046). Status: Expected deadline March 18, 2027. It is in our archive of Health Resources and Services Administration notices from 2026.

• Award ceiling$750,000
• Total funding$11.3 million
• Expected awards15
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes, small businesses and businesses.

Only domestic organizations are eligible. "Domestic" means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Faith-based organizations are eligible.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

​​The Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program improves and expands rural health care access. It does this by developing new, accredited, sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). ​Newly created rural physician residency programs increase training and ultimately practice in rural areas to address physician shortages. ​The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties. Long-term sustainability funding must come from viable and stable sources, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private sources. ​Qualifying medical specialties are:​Family medicine.​Internal medicine.​Preventive medicine.​Psychiatry.​General surgery.​Obstetrics and gynecology.​For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs:​Are accredited physician residency programs.​Train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA"s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency.​Focus on preparing physicians to practice in rural communities.

Category: Health.

We found no grant awards under Assistance Listing 93.746 in fiscal 2021 to 2025, which usually means the program is new or very small.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, HRSA-27-046, which is forecast.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.