Indiana Graduate Medical Education Fund

Lucas Norrington
GMEB@che.in.gov
finance@che.in.gov

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education provides grants to support:

• The creation and maintenance of new residency positions at existing and new graduate medical education programs
• The completion of feasibility studies related to the development of new residency programs
• New residency training positions

Programs should use the funding to increase the number of residents in programs that prepare physicians for entry into:

• Family Medicine
• Outpatient Community-Based Pediatrics
• OB/GYN
• Psychiatry
• Emergency Medicine
• General Surgery
• Outpatient Community-Based Internal Medicine

Priority will also be given to the development of residency programs that:

• Train and expose residents in rural and/or underserved regions of the state
• Are collaborative in nature, such as programs that are developed through a consortium approach
• Include the involvement of an FQHC or AHEC organization

Eligible applicants include:

• Hospitals
• Medical schools
• Community-based, ambulatory patient care centers, including:

• Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Community mental health centers
• Rural Health Clinics
• Teaching health centers
• Partnership or consortia of one or more eligible entities

Award ceiling:

• $500,000 for the development of new residency programs
• $135,000 for new residency positions

Project period: 2 years

Grantees must provide matching funds or in-kind resources equal to at least 25% of the grant funding.

Links to application instructions by program type are available on the program website.

• New Residency Program Development Grant
• Residency Expansion Grant

Email completed applications to both GMEB@che.in.gov.