Song Brown Primary Care Residency (PCR) 2026 Application Grant

The Song-Brown Primary Care Residency Program aims to enhance healthcare access in California's underserved areas by funding residency training for primary care physicians. This initiative focuses on recruiting and training residents in multicultural and low-income communities, ensuring they are prepared to serve in these environments. Key strategies include establishing training sites, providing mentorship, and encouraging graduates to practice in areas of unmet need, ultimately addressing healthcare disparities across the state.

Purpose
The Song-Brown Program funds institutions that train primary care doctors to provide health care in California’s medically underserved areas.
Description
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:
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. 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. Implementing counseling and placement programs to encourage training program graduates to enter practice in areas of unmet need. Providing preceptorship experiences in an area of unmet need to enhance the potential of training program graduates to practice in such an area.