Song Brown Primary Care Residency (PCR) 2026 Application

Song Brown Primary Care Residency (PCR) 2026 Application

The Song-Brown Program funds institutions that train primary care doctors to provide health care in California’s medically underserved areas.

This grant opportunity will result in funding organizations to educate and train primary care (family medicine, internal medicine, OB/GYN, and pediatric) residents to work in underserved communities. All residency programs shall incorporate the following strategies into their programs:    1.      Providing training sites in medically underserved multi-cultural communities, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, or rural communities, and preparing primary care physicians for service in such neighborhoods and communities. 2.      Establishing procedures to identify, recruit, and match primary care residents who possess characteristics which would suggest a predisposition to practice in areas of unmet need, and who express a commitment to serve in areas of unmet need. 3.      Implementing counseling and placement programs to encourage training program graduates to enter practice in areas of unmet need. 4.      Providing preceptorship experiences in an area of unmet need to enhance the potential of training program graduates to practice in such an area.

Details

• Agency: Department of Health Care Access and Information
• Type: Grant
• Funding Source: State
• Estimated Available Funds: $31,000,000
• Estimated Awards: Dependant on number of submissions received, application process, etc.
• Award Amount: Dependant on number of submissions received, application process, etc.
• Funding Method: Reimbursement(s)
• Matching Funds: Not Required
• Geography: Programs must be within California.

Categories

Health & Human Services

Eligible Applicants

Business; Nonprofit; Public Agency