Graduating

Three months before your graduation, the NHSC sends you information that will help you find the approved site where you must begin to fulfill your service commitment within nine months of graduation if you are a physician assistant, nurse practitioner or certified nurse midwife or information that will enable you to defer your service commitment until you have completed an approved residency or other postgraduate training if you are a physician or dentist.

Because so much can change, we do not recommend you start your search for an eligible position at an approved site before you receive your placement package from the NHSC.

It is your responsibility to select sites that appeal to you and interview with them. The NHSC provides you with a listing of approved sites with eligible vacancies and helps you make arrangements for (and pays for) travel.

Once you have identified NHSC Job Opportunities vacancies that interest forward your resume to the site and contact your advisor at the Recruitment and Training Service Center. We will work with you and your prospective site(s) to facilitate a successful match. Please keep in mind that some vacancies fill rather quickly and interviewing at certain locations can be quite competitive.

If you have not secured an eligible position at an approved site within nine months of graduation, you lose your freedom of choice and the NHSC will select sites where you will interview.

Once have received a job offer from the NHSC approved site with an eligible vacancy where you want to fulfill your service commitment, submit the following documents to your advisor at the Recruitment and Training Service Center:

• Copy of your job offer
• Copy of your Acceptance Letter
• Proof that you have passed all required exam(s).
• Documentation supporting any changes to your name and/or notification of changes to your contact information.
• Start-date Verification Letter.
• Copy of your unrestricted, discipline-specific state license. One-year provisional licenses are not acceptable.
• Copy of your the National Practitioner Data Bank Report.

Scholar Placement Conference

The annual Scholar Placement Conference helps prepare you to interview at eligible sites and secure the position where you will fulfill your service commitment. You will also be able to meet with clinic administrators to talk about potential job opportunities. You are strongly encouraged to attend.