I will finish my IM residency in june 2007. Im planing on doing my J1 waiver process by myself. I found a medical group in TN who is willing to go ahead and work with me in the J1 process since one of the two main partners was also J1 waiver, shares with me the same principles of faith and is also hispanic, so I feel good about this practice. This county is MUA for the whole county. For HPSA that is what it says:
http://hpsafind.hrsa.gov/HPSASearch.aspx
I talked to the person encharged of J1 waivers in TN and she said that TN has a requierement that says that the county has to be not only MUA/HPSA but also belongs to the top 30 health resource shortage areas: (page 27 in the PDF form)
http://www2.state.tn.us/health/rural/HAPU.pdf
Basically, this county is not one of those, so she said I could apply through the ARC, altough it seems that I have to send all the documents to the person that is encharged of the waiver in TN.
My concern is regarding the question 5 of the DS 3035 form http://travel.state.gov/pdf/ds3035.pdf
Do I have to check IGA (for physicians)? or do I check State Health Department? (since I'm sending the documents through the state). If I choose IGA and lets say in 1 or 2 months I have a better offer, can I change my selection to State Health Department? Do I need to pay a waiver fee again? Any one has ever done a waiver using the ARC? Thanks a lot for your time and help.
http://hpsafind.hrsa.gov/HPSASearch.aspx
I talked to the person encharged of J1 waivers in TN and she said that TN has a requierement that says that the county has to be not only MUA/HPSA but also belongs to the top 30 health resource shortage areas: (page 27 in the PDF form)
http://www2.state.tn.us/health/rural/HAPU.pdf
Basically, this county is not one of those, so she said I could apply through the ARC, altough it seems that I have to send all the documents to the person that is encharged of the waiver in TN.
My concern is regarding the question 5 of the DS 3035 form http://travel.state.gov/pdf/ds3035.pdf
Do I have to check IGA (for physicians)? or do I check State Health Department? (since I'm sending the documents through the state). If I choose IGA and lets say in 1 or 2 months I have a better offer, can I change my selection to State Health Department? Do I need to pay a waiver fee again? Any one has ever done a waiver using the ARC? Thanks a lot for your time and help.