Students to Service is a pilot program that provides loan repayment assistance of up to $120,000 to medical students in their last year of school. In exchange, they must commit to serve in a health professional shortage area after they complete a primary care residency program.
The newest NHSC providers must serve three years of full-time service or six years of half-time service in rural and urban areas of the greatest need.
“This new program is an innovative approach to encouraging more medical students to work as primary care doctors,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said in the report. “This is an important part of the administration’s commitment to building the future healthcare workforce.”
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