Funding Goal
WRPRAP aims to expand and enhance rural graduate medical education (GME) opportunities that prepare residents to practice in rural Wisconsin communities.
Funding priorities are ranked by the following criteria:
- Programs that put residents in rural areas for residency – rural tracks and eligible rotations
- Programs that actively facilitate and support rural tracks and rotations
- Curriculum that takes place at a rural site that enhances the training and experience
- Curriculum that is rural focused, but does not take place at a rural site
Rural GME Operational Grants
The Rural GME Operational Fund supports quality improvement and continuation of current rural GME programs. Activities may include rural rotations*, curriculum development, technical assistance for rural residency programs, and more.
Eligibility and Application information »
*Operational Grants may support salary, fringe and mileage payments directly to resident’s employer to cover costs of 8-week rural rotation. Applications for rural rotations are accepted and awarded on an ongoing basis, pending available funding.
Rural GME Transformational Grants
The Rural GME Transformational Fund finances initiatives to develop and evaluate innovative rural GME programs, to determine and validate appropriate GME performance measures and to award new WRPRAP-funded GME training positions in eligible disciplines.
Eligibility and Application Information »
Application Closing Dates
September 9, 2024
February 10, 2025
*Grants to support rural rotations are awarded on an ongoing basis and applications may be submitted at any time. See Operational Grants.
First-time Applicants
Contact WRPRAP@fammed.wisc.edu with questions or intent to apply for funding.