Health Careers Opportunity Program
Students participating in HCOP must be:
* Disadvantaged Students - defined as a student from an environment that has inhibited the individual from obtaining the knowledge, skills and abilities to succeed in a health professions school or from a program providing education or training in an allied health profession, and/or a student from a family with an annual income below a level based on low-income thresholds according to family size
* In K-12, undergraduate or graduate programs
* U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals or foreign nationals with a visa permitting permanent U.S. residence
All Health Career Opportunities Programs
* Recruit individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds for health professions training
* Assist disadvantaged students to enter training programs in health or allied health professions
* Provide counseling, mentoring and other services that help students successfully complete their training
* Provide preliminary education and health research training
* Publicize financial aid and financial planning resources to students and parents, as well as information about health care careers and training
* Expose students to community-based primary health care with public and private nonprofit providers.
* Develop a larger and more competitive applicant pool through partnerships with institutions of higher education, school districts and other community-based entities.
Eligibility
* Schools of Medicine (allopathic or osteopathic), Public Health, Dentistry, Physician Assistants, Veterinary Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy, Podiatric Medicine, Allied Health Chiropractic or graduate programs in Clinical Psychology
* Public or private nonprofit health or educational entities
* May be a university, college, junior college, state or local government health or education agency, health or education association or organization
* Located in a state, U.S. territory or the District of Columbia
* Not be a nursing program, which by law are funded through Nursing Workforce Diversity grants