The Health Care Improvement Act ("The Act"), Public Law 94-437, and its subsequent amendments of 1980, 1988 and 1992 authorize the Indian Health Service (IHS) to conduct three interrelated scholarship programs to train the health professional personnel necessary to staff IHS health programs and other health programs serving the Indian people.

Three types of scholarships are available:

1. Health Professions-Preparatory Compensatory (section 103)
2. Health Professions Pregraduate (section 103)
3. Health Professions (section 104)

Both Full-time and Part-time student opportunities are available.

To be eligible to participate in the IHS Scholarship Program, applicants must:

1. be American Indian or Alaska Native;
2. have the capacity to complete a health professions course of study;
3. be enrolled, or accepted for enrollment, in a compensatory preprofessional general education course or curriculum; or be enrolled or accepted for enrollment a program leading to a degree in a health related professions school within the United States.
4. Intend to serve Indian People upon completion of professions health care education as a health care provider in the discipline for which the student is funded.

For more information, see the Scholarship Program page.

To request additional information, write or call the Scholarship Program at:

or contact the IHS Scholarship Coordinator responsible for your region.