SUSPENSION PROVISION Participants may request a suspension of their obligation. A Suspension may be granted for up to 1 year. In order to qualify for a suspension, the participant must document a medical condition or personal situation that makes compliance with the obligation temporarily impossible or an extreme hardship such that enforcement would be against equity and good conscience. Examples would be the terminal illness of an immediate family member for whom the participant is caretaker or extended maternity leave due to medical complications.
DEFAULT PROVISION Participants who fail to begin or complete their service obligation or otherwise breach the terms and conditions of the obligation are in default of their contracts and are subject to the financial consequences outlined in their contracts.
Given the ongoing need for physicians in underserved portions of South Carolina, this loan forgiveness program will be awarded to physician assistant students who commit to practice in a primary care or critical need specialties in rural South Carolina.
Loan forgiveness award recipients will agree to practice in a primary care or a critical need specialty within a rural area of South Carolina upon program completion. Continue reading “The SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare offers a loan award up to $40,000 in educational costs (i”
