This manual covers basic policies and procedures governing four student loan and scholarship programs administered within the Bureau of Health Manpower, National Institutes of Health. An introductory chapter provides definitions, procedures, and reporting common to all programs, and this is followed by chapters describing: (1) The Health Professions Student Loan Program, (2) The Health Professions Scholarship Program, (3) The Nursing Student Loan Program, and (4) The Nursing Scholarship Program. The remaining chapters provide information on repayment plans, collection procedures, accounting for funds, reporting, and auditing. Information in the manual is provided in consecutively numbered subchapters and subsections. Federal legislation, forms, schedules of repayment plans, sample letters, and checklists pertinent to the loan and scholarship programs are appended. (SS)