Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Program

Background
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Health Workforce is accepting applications for the Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Program. The purpose of this program is to create a Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center (Center) to support the career development of junior primary care dental faculty (Trainees) in accredited schools of dentistry through a cooperative agreement. The Center will support the development of Trainees as future clinician educator faculty and leaders in primary care dentistry.

Grant Details
The Center will establish a curriculum and training/career development materials to prepare and develop Trainees for an academic career in primary care dentistry. The program will support training and career development for two cohorts of not less than six Trainees for two, 2-year faculty development program cohorts starting in Years 2 and 4 of the cooperative agreement for a total of no less than twelve Trainees across the entire 5-year grant period. The awarded institution (Center) will create, maintain, or improve an institutional dental faculty development program to position Trainees for an academic career in primary care dentistry. The Center will make subawards to the institutions that employ the junior faculty Trainees in order facilitate their training.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible entities include accredited schools of dentistry, public or nonprofit private hospitals, or public or private nonprofit entities which have been determined capable of carrying out such grant or contract such as an academic health center with a CODA accredited primary care dental residency program.

Period of Performance
The period of performance is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026 (5 years). A planning year is allowed from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022.

Grant Value
$700,000 is available annually to fund one center and subawards to home institutions. The Center will provide subawards of up to $75,000 to each of the home institutions for each year of the two-year training program.

Place of Performance
The home institutions employing the junior primary care dental faculty/Trainees are the specific geographic locations where the grant will be performed.