for the service years and choosing where you go, do they just give you a list of sites and you just choose from there? also is it first-come, first-serve? And can you make a case for going to a specific site (Exp: family, financial reasons, etc.)?
It is up to you to research sites and apply to ones with openings. It is basically a normal job search. You find an opening, you apply, you interview, you accept. The only additional things that you have to worry about is to make sure it is an “NHSC active site” and that the HPSA score is one that qualifies for you. You will be assigned a HPSA score the beginning of your last year of schooling.
I believe it does
okay thanks!
discipline as in "Medicine, dental" etc?
and I'm guessing this doesn't include recommendation letters since it's sent in by professors and whatnot?
I'm pretty sure you can choose where you work hahaha
Prisons are definitely in the minority of approved places to work. You will only work in a prison if you want to. And sometimes, not even if you want to. I wanted to work in a super max federal prison, but the one I had in mind ended up not having a high enough HPSA score.
Who told you that the letterhead was missing? Someone from the NHSC after the letter was submitted?
I wrote "Dentistry" on all of mine. Do you think it matters which way we write it? Maybe I'm just being paranoid lol
idk, I think as long as you have a program on there its fine. i wrote "Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine"
yeah I think the main ones for the app are:
both my letters were submitted and the NHSC hasn't contacted me about them yet. i don't think they see it until you submit your app. and I also don't think they'll tell you if something was wrong in the app. i read on the guide that if something is missing, they won't let you know. you just automatically get disqualified.
can you explain more about the score? How do they assign scores and what does it mean?It is up to you to research sites and apply to ones with openings. It is basically a normal job search. You find an opening, you apply, you interview, you accept. The only additional things that you have to worry about is to make sure it is an “NHSC active site” and that the HPSA score is one that qualifies for you. You will be assigned a HPSA score the beginning of your last year of schooling.
You can search for sites/jobs on this site:
Health Workforce Connector
connector.hrsa.gov
I also wrote Dentistry! I feel like that would be fine.
HPSA stands for Health Professional Shortage Area. It is the calculation that HRSA (the government agency that runs the NHSC) uses to determine need in a particular area or at a particular site. If you get the scholarship, you will be assigned a HPSA score your last year of training. You will need to find a site that has a score equal or above what you are assigned.
Guys, this exact question and others like it are all answered in the program guide. Please look through and if you can’t find the answer to your question then feel free to post it here.
I put the info going across the very top of each document as a header. I used this website to edit the PDFs and then re-downloaded the new version to my computer.
I put it on the top left corner for each document but on the passport I put it on the right because the left side was dark blue so it was hard to see. as long as it's somewhere on the side on each document you should be fine
I see the information about tuition/loans, but I don't see anything about books, equipment, medical insurance, etc. Say you pay those out of pocket or using another scholarship award that you received, would you receive a refund for those?
You would not be able to receive another scholarship beyond this one if you get it. Federal regulations will not allow scholarships to exceed the schools estimated cost of attendance without an appeal.
awesome thanks!
I tailored mine more towards healthcare roles but have a few roles that I did since graduation that arent healthcare related. but try to focus more on the healthcare part - whether that's your role in medicine, nursing, dentistry etc.
The worst part about this whole process is the application. So many contradictions, so many vague or unclear instructions...
I have no idea about my academic letter, but I would assume it was on letterhead. My non-academic for sure was not on letterhead. He sent it to me after my application was submitted. It also did not have a signature.I found out my recommender doesn't even have access to letterhead. And he's a doctor working at the hospital every day.
When you applied cooliyak, did you get letterhead? It can't be do or die...
I would say yes, but you could always call to ask. My academic letter came from my supervisor at work (I was an academic advisor). Nobody said anything about it.
Seconding this, my recommender said the same but he was able to submit with both just in case. On the webinar Wednesday, NHSC staff acknowledged that accessing letterheads/getting handwritten signatures might be hard right now with COVID-19 and they will have a certain level of flexibility with that.
I honestly think that would be fine esp if it was pretty recent that you did your undergrad also.
I would include anything and everything that is relevant to either your experience in the field that you are going into (med, dent, nursing, etc), academics, or volunteer experiences. I included things that I otherwise would not have for a job application. For example, I included my volunteer experience at hospitals, blood drives, Meals On Wheels (meal delivery service for elderly), even Boy Scouts all the way back to my childhood. I was trying demonstrate how service was in my blood and not just recently.
Perfect, thank you!!
Thanks! just texted both of my professors to double check
