Rural Locum Tenens and CME Travel Scholarship

The Colorado Rural Health Center is offering Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Dentists with an opportunity to get scholarship money for locum tenens pay, and/or travel costs associated with attending local, statewide, or national conferences or additional trainings. Funding cannot be used to pay for the cost of attending the conference, or registering for the program.

Criteria & Eligibility

  • Applicants must be located in a rural, or non-metropolitan county in Colorado
  • The applicant organization can be a public or private entity, including FQHC’s
  • All awards are paid to the organization, and not the scholarship recipient
  • You can apply for Locum Tenens costs, travel, or both (up to $1,500 dollars total)
  • The maximum per diem rates are established using the GSA Federal rates at www.gsa.gov/portal/category/100120
  • Available to Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, & Dentists
  • Applications may be submitted for consideration only after the training/expense has occurred
  • Award prioritization will be given to new applications from providers who have not been funded in the previous six months
  • Sites may be awarded up to two awards within a 12 month period

Application Process Download the application and coversheet. Please fill out, and save, in Microsoft Word. You may submit your application via email or fax. If submitting via email, please make the narrative and all attachments ONE inclusive document. The coversheet may be separate. Please send your application to rp@coruralhealth.org or fax to 303.832.7496.

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