The Loan Repayment Program (LRP):
Eligibility, Disciplines & Specialties:
All health profesionals are eligible to apply to the
LRP. However, physicians and nurses have historically
received the highest priority
for selection into the program.
LRP applicants must be health or allied health
professionals who:
are U.S. Citizens;
are committed to practice at an
IHS or other Indian health program priority site,
demonstrated by signing a binding contract to serve at
such at such a site;
are free to begin service on or before September
30, in a full-time clinical practice for two continuous years
in an approved IHS or other Indian health program priority site; and,
Section 4(n) of the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), Public Law (P.L.) 94-437,
as amended, provides that:
"Health Professions
means family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics,
geriatric medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, podiatric
medicine, nursing, publc health nursing, dentistry,
psychiatry, osteopathy, optometry, pharmacy, psychology,
public health, social work, marriage and family therapy,
chiropractic medicine, environmental health and
engineering and allied health professions"
have a degree in medicine, osteopathy,
dentistry or health profession consistent with Section
4(n); and have a completed an approved graduate training
program in medicine, osteopathy, dentistry or other
health profession in a State, and have a license to
practice medicine, osteopathy, dentristry, or, if
applicable, other health profession in a State, except
that the Secretary may waive the requirement of graduate
training for good cause shown.
For the purposes of this program, the term
"Indian health program" is defined in Section
108 (a)(2)(A) of the IHCIA, as follows:
...any health program or facility
funded, in whole or in part, by the IHS for the
benefit or American Indians and Alaskan Natives
(AI/AN) and administered:
a. Directly by the service; or
b. By any Indian tribe or tribal or Indian
organization pursuant to a contract under:
- The Indian Self-Determination Act
(P.L. 93-638 as amended); or
- Section 23 of the Act of April
30, 1908 (25 U.S.C. 47), popularly known as
the Buy Indian Act; or
- By an urban Indian organization
pursuant to Title V of the IHCIA.
Please e-mail
questions and comments to Webmaster
(cahhaitt@hqe.ihs.gov).
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