Rural Track Application

Rural Track Application

Name:

Student ID Number:

1. Please write a brief personal statement addressing the following:
2. Reasons for your interest in the Rural track.
3. If you had prior experience in a rural community either volunteer, work related, and/or personal, please describe how this has impacted your decision to apply to this track.

1. Describe one health related issue faced by rural populations and one potential solution.

1. Describe how you plan to utilize the knowledge and skills you will obtain from the rural track into your career following completion of your schooling.

National Western Stock Show Foundation Scholarship

All Rural Track Applicants are invited (but not required) to apply for The National Western Stock Show Foundation Scholarship. Admission to the Rural track does NOT automatically come with this scholarship. This award was established by the National Western Stock Show Foundation to encourage new CHA/PAs to settle in rural areas of Colorado or Wyoming for the benefit of the ranching and farming communities in those states. It provides annual awards of $5,000, for a total of $15,000, to one University of Colorado CHA/PA Rural Track student.

The eligibility and requirements for this scholarship are as follows:

a)First year rural track students of the University of Colorado CHA/PA Program are eligible to apply. Preference shall be given to those applicants from rural communities in Colorado and Wyoming and/or to applicants who have participated in the National Western Stock Show.

b)The recipient of the scholarship must remain in good standing and complete the CHA/PA Program. Otherwise, funds will be forfeited, and funds already awarded must be repaid.

c)The recipient must complete a minimum of two years of post graduate work in rural areas of Colorado and Wyoming within a maximum of five years after graduation, “rural” being defined as those counties outside the Metropolitan Statistical Areas of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, Pueblo and Weld county and the city of Grand Junction in Colorado and Laramie county in Wyoming. The National Western Scholarship Trust reserves the right to consider exceptions in the above counties should a question arise regarding whether a community qualifies as rural. If this commitment is not fulfilled, all funds awarded must be repaid to the NWSS foundation.

d)The recipient must submit letters to the NWSS Foundation yearly throughout the program and 2 years post-graduate to update the foundation on their progress and service. These letters will be submitted in the Spring of each year through the scholarship coordinator at the CHA/PA Program.

e)The recipient is expected to attend, as a guest of the NWSS, 2-4 events which may include the Citizens of the West Dinner, Junior Auction, and Red Carpet Art Auction, during January each year of the program unless there are conflicts with clinical rotations. In addition, scholarship recipients may be invited to other events related to NWSS activities and rural recruitment activities.

f)A recipient agreement must be signed that specifies these conditions.

If you feel that you can meet the requirements and are interested in applying for this scholarship, please submit a letter of application to the CHA/PA Program scholarship selection committee. Your letter should be no longer than 2 pages in length and address the following:

1. your experience living in rural communities and/or your participation in the National Western Stock Show
2. your interest, ability and agreement to practice a minimum of two years, post-graduate PA practice, in rural communities in Colorado or Wyoming
3. explicitly state if you are willing to sign the Recipient Agreement and your willingness to attend the National Western Stock Show events as invited during the time you are enrolled in the CHA/PA Program