Did You Know?
- Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, through 2009-2010, sites with lower Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) scores are eligible and sites can list more vacancies and bring on more loan repayment clinicians. Read the Federal Register Notice (PDF – 55 KB)
- In 2009-2010, sites must have a HPSA score of 17 or higher to list scholar vacancies and can hire no more than one physician, one dentist, one psychiatrist and one of the following: nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, physician assistant. Read the Federal Register Notice (PDF – 56 KB)
- To maintain your eligibility to recruit NHSC clinicians, re-apply every three years by submitting a Recruitment and Retention Assistance application every three years and any time your HPSA score changes.

Recruit Clinicians

Call for Help if you are or want to become an approved NHSC Service Site.

Qualified clinicians committed to caring for underserved people rely on National Health Service Corps Job Opportunities as a quick and easy to find current, open job vacancies, most of which are eligible for fulfilling the NHSC service commitment.

Updated daily, NHSC Job Opportunities is a sure way to reach thousands of health care professionals who are actively seeking work in underserved communities — including foreign-educated and J-1 visa waiver candidates who are not eligible for the National Health Service Corps scholarship or loan repayment programs.

Approved sites: Phone the the Recruitment Training and Support Center at 1-877-313-1823, Monday through Friday (except Federal holidays), 8 am to 6 pm ET, to add, delete, or update your site’s vacancies. You may list vacancies in the following disciplines:

Primary Care	Dental	Mental Health
physicians (MD or DO in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry) nurse practitioners certified nurse midwives physician assistants	dentists (general or pediatric) dental hygienists	health service psychologists licensed clinical social workers psychiatric nurse specialists marriage and family therapists licensed professional counselors

Ready Responders

Ready Responders are officers in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service who provide clinical care in NHSC-approved sites and also help them develop, implement, or maintain programs such as

emergency preparedness and response,
patient education,
staff development,
development of realistic recruitment and retention protocols, and
infrastructure improvement.

Ready Responders are

Physicians (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Psychiatry),
Dentists (general and pediatric),
Nurses (Baccalaureate and/or Master’s Prepared Registered Nurses),
Nurse Practitioners (Family, Geriatrics, and Pediatrics),
Physician Assistants,
Clinical Psychologists, and
Social Workers.

About 50 Ready Responders are currently in service. To apply to become an approved NHSC Ready Responder site, please contact:

CDR Albert Perrine
Program Manager, Ready Responder Program
Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8A-08
Rockville, Maryland 20857
EMail: APerrine@HRSA.GOV
Telephone: 301-443-4543

Note: The NHSC is not currently accepting applications from clinicians for the Ready Responder program.

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Recruit Clinicians

Ready Responders