“To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize rural residency planning and development grant programs, and for other purposes.”
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This section establishes a rural residency planning and development grant program to support eligible entities (e.g., rural hospitals, graduate medical education consortiums, tribes) in creating new rural residency programs—including rural track programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (or similar body) that provide over 50% of training in rural areas and focus on producing rural practitioners in specified pathways such as family medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, or obstetrics—and a related technical assistance grant program to aid awardees and applicants. Grants under the planning program have a 3-year term (extendable) and may be fully funded at award; technical assistance grants have a 4-year term (extendable) and may also be fully funded at award. The section authorizes $12.7 million for each of FY2026 through FY2030, to remain available until expended.