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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations that govern the Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP). This rule would ensure that VA award not less than 50 HPSP scholarships each year to students who are accepted for enrollment or are enrolled in a program of education or training that leads to employment as a physician or dentist until such a date as VA determines that the current staffing shortage is reduced. This rule would also expand the number of years of obligated service that an HPSP participant who pursues a course of study leading to employment as a physician or dentist would have to perform in VA in a discipline for which the HPSP was awarded. This rulemaking would implement the mandates of the VA MISSION Act of 2018.