PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To recruit and retain health professionals performing research in fields required by the NIH to carry out its mission by providing educational loan repayment for participants with substantial amounts of educational debt relative to income, who agree by written contract to engage in laboratory or clinical research as employees of the NIH for a minimum 3-year period.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EDUCATION;
- Higher Education - General;
2. HEALTH;
- Education and Training;
- Health Research - General;
- Specialized Health Research and Training;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Health Professional;
- Scientist/Researcher;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- Individual/Family;
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);