The UC Riverside School of Medicine has received a trio of grants worth $750,000 over three years that will support and grow our internal medicine and family medicine residency programs.

In September, the Family Medicine program received a total of $375,000 over three years from the Song-Brown Healthcare Workforce Training Programs that is granted by the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) , formerly the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). The program funds institutions that train primary care health professionals to provide care in California’s medically underserved areas in the fields of family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics.  Since 2017, Song-Brown funding has helped open 18 new residency programs, expand 23 others, and add a total of 172 residency slots in the state.

In November, Physicians for a Healthy California announced their CalMedForce Graduate Medical Education Grants, awarding $225,000 to internal medicine and $150,000 family medicine over each of the next three years. The purpose of the grant is to grow and strengthen the physician pipeline to meet the demands of California’s underserved areas and populations. The grant’s funding comes from voter-approved state tobacco tax revenues.