Minnesota Rural Family Medicine Residency Grant Program

health.orhpc.workforcegrants@state.mn.us

The Family Medicine Residency Grant Program assists family medicine residency programs outside the 7-county Minnesota Twin Cities metropolitan area by supporting costs associated with training eligible residents in rural Minnesota communities.

Grant funds may be used for:

• Resident, faculty, and preceptor salaries and fringe
• Recruitment, training, and retention of residents and faculty
• Travel and lodging for residents
• Funding for training site costs directly related to the training of residents
• Contractual services directly related to the training of residents
• Equipment purchases directly related to the training of residents
• Other costs directly related to establishing, maintaining, or expanding training for family medicine residents

Eligible applicants are family medicine residency programs that fulfill all of the following criteria:

1. Are located in Minnesota, but outside the 7-county metropolitan area defined by statute as Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties
2. Focus on training family medicine physicians to serve communities outside the 7-county metropolitan area
3. Can demonstrate that at least 25% of graduates from the last 3 calendar years currently practice in Minnesota communities outside the 7-county metropolitan area
4. Have current accreditation, or candidacy for accreditation, with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and be in compliance with the institutional and program requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Family Medicine

Award ceiling: Up to $400,000
Estimated number of awards: 3-4
Estimated total program funding: $1,000,000

Funding amounts for existing residency positions will be calculated based on the ratio of the number of family medicine residents under contract in each applicant's program to the total number of family medicine residents under contract in all eligible applicants' programs.

Links to additional guidance and application instructions are available on the program website.

Submit an online letter of intent by September 30, 2026. Minnesota Department of Health will then review applications for completeness and eligibility and calculate the distribution of grant funds. Grant awardees will then draft a detailed budget and project work plan detailing how the grant funds will be spent, to be submitted in Application Step 2 by October 30, 2026.