And about 85 percent of
National Health Service Corps clinicians continue to work in underserved communities for up to two years after they have completed their service commitment.
National Health Service Corps Ambassador, West Virginia Division of Rural Health & Recruitment
"The
National Health Service Corps has a great record of trying to encourage people to go into primary care," says Wiley of the American Medical Student Association.
The
National Health Service Corps (NHSC) provides clinicians with financial support in the form of loan repayment and scholarships.
She connected with the
National Health Service Corps, which provides health care providers with an incentive to work in underserved areas, despite lower salary offerings, by awarding them student loan repayments and scholarships.
The
National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program is accepting applications for 2011.
Public Health Service
National Health Service Corps achievement and commendation awards.
As one way to assist this critical network of providers address their workforce challenges, Congress created the
National Health Service Corps (NHSC) in 1970.
* Increase funding by $11 billion for community health centers and the
National Health Service Corps over five years; establish new programs to support school-based health centers and nurse-managed health clinics.
Beginning October 1, 2010, the Act will provide funding for the
National Health Service Corps ($1.5 billion over five years) for scholarships and loan repayments for doctors, nurses and other health care providers who work in areas with a shortage of health professionals.
Some additional information through various sources has been added, however, such as an expansion of applications to health professionals that took place when Congress added a new subsection to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 108[f][4], "Payments under
National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program and Certain State Loan Repayment Programs" (American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, P.L.