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§293l–1 Teaching Health Centers Development Grants

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter V— HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION › Part C— Training in Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, General Pediatrics, Physician Assistants, General Dentistry, and Pediatric Dentistry › Subpart 1— medical training generally › § 293l–1

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give grants to teaching health centers to help start or grow primary care residency programs. Grants can last up to 3 years and cannot be more than $500,000 each. Money can pay for work to set up or expand a program, such as making the curriculum, hiring and keeping residents and teachers, paying for required accreditation (ACGME, ADA, or AOA), and paying faculty while the program is being built. Grants can also pay for technical help from qualified organizations. Applicants must apply to the Secretary in the way the Secretary asks. Applications that show an existing agreement with an area health education center program get extra consideration. Definitions: eligible entity = an organization that provides technical help; primary care residency program = approved training in listed specialties (family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine–pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, geriatrics); teaching health center = a community outpatient site that runs a primary care residency (includes FQHCs, community mental health centers, rural clinics, certain Indian Health Service or tribal centers, and other funded health centers). Funding authorized: $25,000,000 for FY2010, $50,000,000 for FY2011, $50,000,000 for FY2012, and such sums as needed after that. Up to $5,000,000 each year may be used for technical assistance grants.

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Title 42, §293l–1

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(a)The Secretary may award grants under this section to teaching health centers for the purpose of establishing new accredited or expanded primary care residency programs.

(b)Grants awarded under this section shall be for a term of not more than 3 years and the maximum award may not be more than $500,000.

(c)Amounts provided under a grant under this section shall be used to cover the costs of—

(1)establishing or expanding a primary care residency training program described in subsection (a), including costs associated with—

(A)curriculum development;

(B)recruitment, training and retention of residents and faculty: 11 So in original. The colon probably should be a semicolon.

(C)accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Dental Association (ADA), or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA); and

(D)faculty salaries during the development phase; and

(2)technical assistance provided by an eligible entity.

(d)A teaching health center seeking a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.

(e)In selecting recipients for grants under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to any such application that documents an existing affiliation agreement with an area health education center program as defined in section 294a and 295p of this title.

(f)In this section:

(1)The term “eligible entity” means an organization capable of providing technical assistance including an area health education center program as defined in section 294a and 295p of this title.

(2)The term “primary care residency program” means an approved graduate medical residency training program (as defined in section 256h of this title) in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and geriatrics.

(3)(A)The term “teaching health center” means an entity that—

(i)is a community based, ambulatory patient care center; and

(ii)operates a primary care residency program.

(B)Such term includes the following:

(i)A Federally qualified health center (as defined in section 1396d(l)(2)(B) of this title).

(ii)A community mental health center (as defined in section 1395x(ff)(3)(B) of this title).

(iii)A rural health clinic, as defined in section 1395x(aa) of this title.

(iv)A health center operated by the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization (as defined in section 1603 of title 25).

(v)An entity receiving funds under subchapter VIII.

(g)There is authorized to be appropriated, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, and such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year thereafter to carry out this section. Not to exceed $5,000,000 annually may be used for technical assistance program grants.

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42 U.S.C. § 293l–1

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

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Apr 5, 2026

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