Providing Financial Support to
Traveling Healthcare Professionals
TEG supports and funds travel medical professionals who are advancing their education in healthcare.
Many healthcare travelers are working hard to advance their education through Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD Degrees, bridge or specialization programs such as Nurse Practitioner, and we want to help them achieve their dreams.
Travelers Education Group (TEG) is a charitable organization that grants annual educational scholarships (each up to a $5,000 value) to healthcare travelers who are furthering their education in healthcare.
TEG also provides financial support for healthcare travelers who choose to contribute their time and expertise through participation in medical mission trips abroad.
You have worked as a healthcare traveler (on assignment) in the year you apply.
You’re a current student enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD Degree, a bridge or specialization program in healthcare, or you have completed a medical mission trip in the year you apply.
Total dollars awarded.
Scholarships were increased to $3,000 per person in 2022, and to $5,000 in 2025.
Travel Healthcare Recipients.
All professions including Nurses, Therapists & Allied Health Professionals
Years of annual scholarships.
We’ve been awarding grants every year since 2018, while also increasing the amounts granted.
Personal dreams come true! You work hard taking care of patients, we work hard to help make your dreams a reality.
When Fund Sponsors donate to our cause, it allows TEG to provide support to more
healthcare travelers. We are incredibly grateful for their generosity!
November 1st each year. TEG will announce the winners of the grants by late November.
Paid tuition or mission trip receipts from the current year are required by Nov 15th of the scholarship year in order to be awarded scholarship funds (consideration given up to Nov 30th if needed).
While we receive many applications each year, not everyone qualifies. These applicants met all the qualifications for our scholarships. Congratulations to all of our winners this year – and best wishes in your future careers!
Traveling has made me a stronger and more confident nurse. It opened my eyes to what healthcare can & should look like; especially when I compare it to the limited resources and challenges I saw working in my little border town. The experience taught me how to advocate not just for my patients, but for myself as a professional.
Traveling has given me the opportuity to earn enough income to start my own company and fund my non-profit. It has also allowed me to always be on an adventure and experience what it is like to live in different places all over the world.
Working in diverse clinical settings has sharpened my health assessment techniques and enhanced my ability to adapt in high-pressure environments. It has allowed me to build a strong professional network and exposed me to new ways of thinking and practicing.
I questioned if I was ready to travel yet in my career but travel nursing has helped hone my confidence in the knowledge I possess of cardiothoracic ICU nursing. I have even gained new clinical skills and competencies by adapting to different practice environments and learning new equipment and protocols.
Each facility has provided skills and support to me to learn and assist in surgeries I wanted to gain experience in. It not only help me, but supported the facility with a nurse who would challenge herself to learn and assist with staffing issues in those areas.
Travel nursing has strengthened my adaptability, sharpened my clinical skills, and taught me how to provide quality care in diverse and often resource-limited settings. These experiences have not only made me a better nurse, but also a more grounded and compassionate person.
Traveling has been invaluable in shaping me into a more versatile, empathetic, and knowledgeable nurse practitioner, better prepared to meet the demands of an ever-evolving healthcare landscape. Personally, traveling has enriched my perspective by immersing me in different cultures and environments.
Working as medical travelor is a great way to see the world. You get to see different sites, try different activities and foods. I have gone on my first medical missions trip which has always been something I have always wanted to do. I feel medical travel has opened so many doors of opportunity for me!
Travel nursing has advanced both my professional and personal development by pushing me beyond my comfort zone and challenging me to grow in every assignment. The experiences have not only enriched my career, but shaped the nurse, leader, scholar, and the person I am today.
Traveling immersed me in different cultures around the country, and offered a wider perspective on people with acute & chronic illnesses. It has offered various paths to healing these illnesses, which led me towards a naturopathic methodology of healing the body from within.
Travel nursing has profoundly shaped both my professional and personal growth. Clinically, it has exposed me to diverse healthcare systems and patient populations, enhancing my adaptability, cultural humility, and critical thinking skills.
Travel nursing has significantly advanced both my personal and professional development by exposing me to diverse healthcare settings, patient populations, and medical practices. Overall, it has shaped me into a more well-rounded, resourceful, and compassionate nurse
Travelers Education Group (TEG) is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization. Therefore, your gift is tax-deductible to the full extent provided by law. To partner with us in providing support for the healthcare traveler community, TEG welcomes any donations.
Monetary donations in excess of $20 will receive a written acknowledgment (IRS receipt) upon request. Help out our healthcare travel community and donate today!
Scholarship deadlines are November 1st every year.
Determinations will be made by the end of November.