Award to Support Future Rural Residencies through Technical Assistance. The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has been awarded a cooperative agreement to provide technical assistance to future grantees of the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program in fiscal year 2019. The agreement, administered through the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy in collaboration with HRSA’s Bureau of Health Workforce, will enable the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to lead a consortium including the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Network, the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and others to work with future RRPD grantees to create new, accredited, financially and structurally sustainable rural residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, and psychiatry.
