Recruitment and Retention

Education Awards

The Rural Communities Healthcare Investment Program (RCHIP) is designed to attract and retain non-physician healthcare professionals in rural communities by providing incentives such as stipends or loan repayment assistance to non-physician healthcare professionals who agree to practice in rural medically underserved areas.

Continuing Education

SORH supports continuing education credit training opportunities at Health.edu through the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. For employees of critical access hospitals, courses through Health.edu are free. For other rural health providers, the courses have a minimal fee.

Training from the Texas Department of State Health Services
Train Texas
Free online continuing education for health professionals.

Job Posting/Job Search

SORH supports the following two free job posting sites for medical jobs:

National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet), an on-line job posting site dedicated to rural and underserved area medical job posters and seekers.
HRSA Health Workforce Connector - Connecting skilled health professionals to communities in need.

Please contact Cindy Ellis, (512) 776-7518 at the Texas Primary Care Office, regarding accreditation to become a NHSC site or for questions about job posting.

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