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National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Overview

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is committed to improving the health of the Nation's underserved by uniting communities in need with caring health professionals and supporting communities' efforts to build better systems of care.

The NHSC provides comprehensive team-based health care that bridges geographic, financial, cultural, and language barriers. The NHSC is working toward helping all Americans, everywhere, to gain access to quality health care.

Read the pages below to learn more about the NHSC and the various opportunities.

NHSC

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Scholarship Program

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Loan Repayment Program

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Job Opportunities List

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Student/Resident Experiences and Rotations in Community Health (SEARCH)

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Ready Responders

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Ambassador Program

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Communities

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Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) A HPSA is a geographic area, population group, or health care facility that has been designated by the Federal Government as having a shortage of health professionals.

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Success Stories

California

Ambassador Blends Goal of Increasing Minority Enrollment with NHSC Mission

For Les Howard, having a sense of mission in one's life is inextricably tied to community and responsibility. This is what he learned growing up disadvantaged himself. It is how he lives his life, and it is the single-most important message that he brings to the students under his careful watch. As program director of the San Joaquin Valley College (SJVC) Primary Care Physician Assistant (PA) Program he sees himself perfectly positioned to pass on the values and resourcefulness that have inspired his own remarkable life. For Howard, the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is one of his most important allies in the task of sending the best and brightest of his graduates to care for California's underserved communities.

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