(Feb. 7, 2025) – HRSA Announces Grants for Nurse Faculty Loan Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration announced grants to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty nationwide. The Nurse Faculty Loan Program provides funding to accredited nursing schools to establish and operate a student loan fund and provide loans to students enrolled in advanced nursing degree programs committed to becoming nurse faculty.
The program authorizes canceling as much as 85 percent of the original student loan amount in exchange for completing four years of post-graduation and full-time employment as a nurse faculty member in an accredited nursing school. Applications will be accepted through Monday, Feb. 24.
HRSA Accepting Grant Applications for Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration announced new grants to expand the number of fellows at accredited Addiction Medicine Fellowship and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship programs trained as addiction medicine specialists. The Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program encompasses both psychiatry and an addiction subspecialty for primary care doctors training in prevention and treatment services in rural areas with limited or no access to substance use disorder treatment. The grant application deadline is Friday, Feb. 28.
Before You Go ...
- In 2023, about 50,000 suicides occurred in the U.S. — that equates to about one every 11 minutes. Approximately 300 to 400 of these deaths happen among physicians, and that number increases if all health care workers are included. Parents of a medical student who died by suicide months before completing school call for mental health reform in medical education in this article from JAMA Internal Medicine.
- Researchers at Boston Medical Center spoke with HealthCity and shared key findings from their recent study published in Science Direct, Embracing Anti-Racism: Co-Creating Recommendations with Black People for How Addiction Treatment Needs to Change.
- A new study led by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and published Nov. 13 in JAMA Network Open found that fewer than half of psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. have medications for opioid use disorder available for their patients. Learn why.