Congressman Cohen Announces $750,000 Grant to UTHSC
For Family Medicine program to improve training for doctors serving in rural areas
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $750,000 grant to strengthen its Family Medicine program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Rural Residency Planning and Development Program.
The purpose of the program is to improve health care in rural areas by developing new, sustainable rural residency programs or rural track programs (RTPs) that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to support expansion of the physician workforce pipeline in rural communities.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“Until last year’s redistricting, Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District was largely urban. With the addition of parts of western Tipton County, I am pleased that the Department of Health and Human Service is making this kind of investment in our medical school to expand the physician workforce in rural areas.”
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