What do the NHSC consider as primary care

[Onigiri]

NHSC, Would internal medicine and specializing in urology be counted as Primary Care? What would be considered primary care to them?

I'm thinking about this scholarship, I don't know too much and on their website it was hard to find some information I was looking for. I know that there are other things involved with this scholarship such as working in rural areas for a set many years.


My google fu is weak and I apologize if this post sounds dumb.

Thank you SDN community!

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[Long Way to Go]

Urology is a surgical specialty.

 

[ChrisMack390]

This is definitely on the website.

I believe the answer is family medicine, internal medicine (aka hospitalist; no specialty), psych, obgyn, and any combination of these. Definitely not urology.

 

[allantois]

Urology isn't a subspecialty of internal medicine.

 

[Long Way to Go]

This is definitely on the website.

I believe the answer is family medicine, internal medicine (aka hospitalist; no specialty), psych, obgyn, and any combination of these. Definitely not urology.

Does NHSC take IM hospitalists? I was under the impression that they were looking for outpatient-heavy internists?

 

[gyngyn]

"NHSC-approved primary care specialties are adult, family, internal medicine, general
pediatric, geriatrics, general psychiatry, mental and behavioral health, women’s health, and
obstetrics/gynecology." http://nhsc.hrsa.gov/downloads/sitereference.pdf
See page 9.