NHSC Loan Repayment Program
2 year Half-Time Clinical Practice: NHSC will pay up to $25,000 for service at an NHSC-approved service site with an HPSA score of 14 or higher, or $15,000 at sites with an HPSA score of 13 or lower.
*Once minimum of 2 years has been completed, the health provider does have the opportunity to extend service and loan repayment to cover all medical school expenses*
Fact Sheet: http://www.nhsc.hrsa.gov/downloads/lrpataglance.pdf
For more information, check out https://nhsc.hrsa.gov/loanrepayment/nhscloanrepayment/index.html
- Open to all licensed primary care medical, dental, and mental health providers
- 2 program options:
2 year Half-Time Clinical Practice: NHSC will pay up to $25,000 for service at an NHSC-approved service site with an HPSA score of 14 or higher, or $15,000 at sites with an HPSA score of 13 or lower.
*Once minimum of 2 years has been completed, the health provider does have the opportunity to extend service and loan repayment to cover all medical school expenses*
- "Full-time"= minimum 40 hours/week, 45 weeks/year, no more than 12 hours of work compressed into any single day. "Half-time"= minimum 20 hours/week with the same constraints above.
- If there are ore applicants than there is funding, preference is given to applicant characteristics that indicate a higher likelihood of continuing to practice in an HPSA once the service is completed (assessed by experience working with underserved populations) and/or who comes from a disadvantaged background (certification required).
- Participants can switch down from full- to half-time during their service contract with the expectation that the remaining time will spent in service will be doubled. Participants can only move up from half- to full-time after their initial 2 year service contract has been completed.
Fact Sheet: http://www.nhsc.hrsa.gov/downloads/lrpataglance.pdf
For more information, check out https://nhsc.hrsa.gov/loanrepayment/nhscloanrepayment/index.html