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Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Clinician Educator Career Development Awards (93.976)

Also known as PCMD Career Development Awards (CDA)

Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Clinician Educator Career Development Awards (Assistance Listing 93.976) is run by the Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $7.0 million in 10 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $702,222 per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.

The typical award was $505,152. Half of the 10 awards fell between $146,831 and $733,677, and they ranged from $64,502 to $3.6 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

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.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

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.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Funds may be used for trainee support costs for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, and dental hygienists who plan to teach in the primary care fields; to provide protected time for trainee's proposed project and for career development activities; support the trainees' proposed project; and/or consultant services. All program income generated as a result of awarded funds must be used for approved project-related activities. Indirect costs under training awards will be budgeted and reimbursed at 8 percent of modified total direct costs rather than on the basis of a negotiated rate agreement, and are not subject to upward or downward adjustment Funds may not be used for salary for mentors, secretarial and administrative assistants, etc. Grants may not be used for new construction or patient services.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. The recipient must agree to maintain non-federal funding for grant activities at a level which is not less than expenditures for such activities during the fiscal year prior to receiving the award.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Clinician Educator Career Development Program Medicine FY 2023: Range $176,664 to $187,500; Average $182,201 FY 2024: Range $180,629 to $187,500; Average $185,279 FY 2025: est Range $166,357 to $187,500; est Average $181,324 Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Program FY 2023: Range $664,042; Average $664,042 FY 2024: Range $664,042; Average $664,042 FY 2025 est: Range: $664,042; est Average $664,042

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Clinician Educator Career Development Awards (93.976) awarded $7.0 million across 10 grant awards, an average of $702,222 per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
University of RochesterNew York2$3.9 million
New York City Health and Hospitals CorporationNew York1$757,725
Texas a & M University System Health Science CenterTexas1$730,065
Trustees of Indiana UniversityIndiana1$717,165
The Regents of the University of California, San FranciscoCalifornia1$681,905
Pennsylvania State UniversityPennsylvania1$293,138
New York UniversityNew York1$117,550
Erie County Medical Center CorpNew York1$114,162
Regents of the University of MinnesotaMinnesota1$64,502

Top states: New York ($4.7 million), Texas ($730,065), Indiana ($717,165), California ($681,905), Pennsylvania ($243,189), Minnesota ($64,502).

Who usually wins

Colleges and universities received 0.9% of the money.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Other9$7.0 million99%
Colleges and universities1$64,5020.9%

By state

1 state has a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. It is New York.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
New York5$4.7 million
Texas1$730,065
Indiana1$717,165
California1$681,905
Pennsylvania1$243,189
Minnesota1$64,502

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.