The Rural Residency Planning and Development Program provides grants to develop new rural residency programs or Rural Training Tracks (RTT) in family medicine, internal medicine, and psychiatry to support expansion of the physician workforce in rural areas. The program's objectives are to develop a newly accredited, rural family medicine, internal medicine, or psychiatry residency program or RTT based in a rural area that is sustainable after the period of performance ends; have a sustainability plan that includes ongoing funding to sustain resident training once the program has been established; and have the ability and a structured plan to track residents’ career outcomes after graduation to determine retention in rural communities. 

Eligibility includes: rural hospitals, rural community-based ambulatory patient care centers including Federally Qualified Health Centers, community mental health centers, and Rural Health Clinics, health centers operated by the Indian Health service, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization, shools of allopathic and osteopathic medicine, public and private nonprofit graduate medical education consortia, and entities such as faith-based and community-based organizations, capable of carrying out the project activities. 

The deadline for this award has been extended to March 25th. The original deadline was March 4th.