Song Brown Primary Care Residency (PCR) 2026 Application

Return to Search Song Brown Primary Care Residency (PCR) 2026 Application Grantor: Department of Health Care Access and Information Portal ID: 161961 Status: Active Opportunity Type: Grant Last Updated: February 25, 2026, 11:07 am | View change notes Categories: Health & Human Services Details Purpose: The Song-Brown Program funds institutions that train primary care doctors to provide health care in California’s medically underserved areas. Description: This grant opportunity will result in funding organizations to educate and train primary care (family medicine, internal medicine, OB/GYN, and pediatric) residents to work in underserved communities. All residency programs shall incorporate the following strategies into their programs: 1. Providing training sites in medically underserved multi-cultural communities, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, or rural communities, and preparing primary care physicians for service in such neighborhoods and communities. 2. Establishing procedures to identify, recruit, and match primary care residents who possess characteristics which would suggest a predisposition to practice in areas of unmet need, and who express a commitment to serve in areas of unmet need. 3. Implementing counseling and placement programs to encourage training program graduates to enter practice in areas of unmet need. 4. Providing preceptorship experiences in an area of unmet need to enhance the potential of training program graduates to practice in such an area. Eligibility Requirements Eligible Applicants: Business Nonprofit Public Agency Eligible applicants provide graduate medical education training in the state of California. See the Eligibility criteria for more information... Eligible Geographies: Programs must be within California. Important Dates Application deadline The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight. 8/3/26 15:00 Expected award announceme