Type 7: Primary Care Training and Enhancement - Residency Training in Mental and Behavioral Health

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Primary Care Training and Enhancement - Residency Training in Mental and Behavioral Health (PCTE-RTMB) program. The purpose of the PCTE-RTMB program is to train primary care residents in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and referral of services for mental and behavioral health conditions for pediatric, adolescent, young adult, and other populations who are at-risk or have experienced abuse, trauma, or mental health and/or substance use disorders, including those related to the effects of gun. Primary care residencies eligible to apply include family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) residencies. Funding must be used to support both didactic training and at least a one-month clinical rotation primarily focused on mental and behavioral health conditions. It is encouraged that other rotations beyond the one-month also focus on mental and behavioral health conditions.

Eligible entities include accredited public or nonprofit private hospitals, schools of allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine, or a public or private non-profit entity, including community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations, which the Secretary has determined is capable of carrying out a residency training program in family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics or combined internal medicine and pediatrics (“med-peds”), which for the purposes of this NOFO are programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Accreditation documentation must be submitted as Attachment 1.