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Centers
of Excellence enable health professions training
programs to enlarge their applicant pools, enhance the academic
performance of under-represented minority students, improve
the recruitment and retention of under-represented minority
faculty, and in other ways enhance the capacity of their
graduates to provide health care services to people who
are medically underserved.
Health
Careers Opportunity Program, Centers of Excellence and Minority
Faculty Fellowship grants are made to schools and health professions
training programs to increase diversity within the health fields.
The grants provide disadvantaged and under-represented minority
students and faculty opportunities to enhance their academic
skills and obtain the support needed to graduate from health
professions schools or faculty development programs. HRSA also
makes grants to health professions training programs to make
scholarships, loans and loan repayments
for disadvantaged students and faculty.
Definitions
For Health Careers Opportunity
Program and Centers of Excellence
grant applications, use the following definitions for commonly
used terms. Other terms frequently used in U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services grant applications are defined in
the Public Health
Service Grants Policy Statement.
Legislation
The Health Professions Education Partnerships Act of
1998 reauthorizes programs HRSA's diversity programs. The Act
was signed by the President on November 13, 1998 and became
Public Law 105-392.
Full Text the Health Professions Education Partnerships Act
of 1998
Resources
Information for diversity program
grantees and applicants
Links
U.S. Government and other Web
sites that provide information on applying for Federal grants,
obtaining student financial aid and diversity in the health
professions
Contact
Diversity Program Staff
