Service Obligated Programs Database

The Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP) is a service-obligated program designed to help recruit and retain health professions faculty members. The FLRP provides eligible faculty members with financial assistance to repay a portion of their educational loans in exchange for full- or part-time service at an eligible health professions school.

The New York State Doctors Across New York (DANY) is a series of initiatives to help recruit physicians and encourage them to remain in medically underserved areas of New York State. The program provides loan repayment and practice support for physicians as well as funding for health care facilities to incentivize physicians for their service.

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) works with health care organizations or individual physicians to request a waiver of the 2-year home-country residence requirement on behalf of foreign-trained physicians holding J-1 visas. The program addresses the appalachian region's health care needs by improving access to physician services in areas that have difficulty attracting and retaining physicians.