This year's annual Montana WWAMI Faculty Development Conference was held April 21-23, 2023 at Chico Hot Springs Resort. We had over 50 Montana preceptors attend. The goal of this conference is to gather Montana physicians affiliated with the Montana WWAMI program and offer faculty development topics pertinent to their role of teaching physicians, particularly as they relate to rural and underserved care. Please save the date for next year: April 12-14, 2024!

Limited travel stipends are available to Montana physicians.

  • $400 travel stipend (two night’s lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) to the first 50 registrants. 
  • For reimbursement, you will need your Itemized hotel receipt and you will need to fill out the W-9 and travel reimbursement form.

Contact Rachel Norrisfor more information:
rachel.norris@montana.edu

After invoicing against your WRITE budget through the UWSOM, additional funds may be accessed through the MT TRUST Stipend.

  • $400 travel stipend (2 nights lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) only for those also attending Friday TRUST session (all day session by invite only); OR
  • $250 (one night’s lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) for those MT TRUST preceptors attending weekend session only. 
  • For reimbursement, you will need your Itemized hotel receipt and you will need to fill out the W-9 and travel reimbursement form.
  • Contact Lisa Benzel for more information: lisabenz@uw.edu

After invoicing against your WRITE budget through the UWSOM, additional funds may be accessed through the MT TRUST Stipend.

  • $400 travel stipend (2 nights lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) only for those also attending Friday TRUST session (all day session by invite only); OR

  • $250 (one night’s lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) for those MT TRUST preceptors attending weekend session only. For reimbursement, you will need your Itemized hotel receipt and you will need to fill out the W-9 and travel reimbursement form.

  • For reimbursement, you will need your Itemized hotel receipt and you will need to fill out the W-9 and travel reimbursement form.

Contact Lisa Benzel for more information:
lisabenz@uw.edu

WRITE sites hosting students in 2023 have a travel budget from the UWSOM for faculty development. These funds should be used to cover conference expenses for your site’s conference attendees. Attendees must be at the Friday, 9 am-1:30 pm, TRUST/WRITE meeting. 



For more information about the conference, please contact:

Judi Sullivan & Bernadette Duperron, Program Administrators
MT WWAMI Clinical Education, Jay Erickson, M.D.
525 Railway Street, Suite 100
Whitefish, MT 59937
Phone: 208-995-6264
WWAMI office: 406-862-3810
Email: jasulliv@uw.edu Or duperron@uw.edu
  
Cindra Stahl, Assistant Director
Montana Office of Rural Health and Area Health Education Center
Montana State University
PO Box 170520
Bozeman, MT 59717-0520
Phone: 406-994-6499
Email: cindra.stahl@montana.edu