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Announcement for the FY2016 Division of Oral Health Long-Term Training Dental Program Site Award: Request for Proposals.

Proposals are being requested for Indian Health Service, Tribal, and Urban (I/T/U) Dental Programs to compete for a Dental Specialist Long-Term Training (LTT) Award. The purpose of this award is to help a Dental Program to sponsor, as a Joint Venture, a currently employed I/T/U dentist to attain an ADA recognized Dental Specialty. Though all Dental Specialties are allowed to be sponsored through this announcement, the focus of the current funding period is for the following Dental Specialties:

  • Endodontic Dentistry
  • Pediatric Dentistry

The Dental Program Site dentist candidate for LTT could be a Commissioned Officer, a Civil Service Dental Officer, or a Tribal full-time Dentist currently employed by the IHS, Tribal Dental Clinic, or Urban Dental Clinic.

This Request for Proposals is to call for I/T/U Dental Programs to submit a proposal for their I/T/U Dental Program site to be competitively selected for a $125,000 award to be used towards LTT of an I/T/U dentist in in a Dental Specialty. After the initial competitive award, up to 3 additional years of non-competitive awards of $125,000 will be made for the benefit of the selected Dental Program to continue to train the selected candidate and/or to help in the initial clinical practice year(s) of the Dental Specialist.

The proposal must be received by 5PM Eastern Time (ET) on October 15, 2015. Proposals should be sent by email to: Carol Bassim (Carol.Bassim@ihs.gov) and Jim Schaeffer (James.Schaeffer@ihs.gov) by this date. The proposals will be reviewed by the LTT Review Committee and announcement of award decisions will be made on November 18, 2015. This award will be for training expected to commence in the summer of 2016.

Please review the attached Division of Oral Health (DOH) announcements for information about and instruction on the application for the LTT Program Site Award. The following are description of the attachments:

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Carol Bassim (email Carol.Bassim@ihs.gov , phone 301-443-4323) for more information.