AHEC Scholars
AHEC Scholars is a program for health professions students interested in supplementing their education by gaining additional knowledge and experience in rural and/or underserved urban settings. This is a longitudinal program with interdisciplinary curricula to implement a defined set of clinical, didactic, and community-based activities. All experiential or clinical training will be conducted in rural and/or underserved urban settings.
Program duration is two years and each year includes the following for a total of 160 hours:
40 hours community-based, experiential, or clinical training in rural and/or underserved area
40 hours didactic education (focused on six Core Topic Areas)
Core Topic Areas
Interprofessional Education
Behavioral Health Integration
Social Determinants of Health
Cultural Competency
Practice Transformation
Current and Emerging Health Issues
Eligibility Criteria:
Students should have a current interest in rural or underserved healthcare and be currently enrolled in a health professions degree or certificate program and be two years from program or degree completion. This includes but is not limited to students in medical, dental, pharmacy, nurse practitioner, nursing, physician assistant, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and public/population health programs.
To become an AHEC Scholar, please fill-out the AHEC Scholar Application by clicking the button below:
Resources for AHEC Scholars
40 Hours Didactic Experiences in inter-professional teams, delivered at the AHEC sites or online.
1. Complete TeamStepps interprofessional training:
http://www.slu.edu/medicine/family-and-community-medicine-home/medical-student-education/ahec-program/team-stepps-modules
2. Problem Based Learning discussion facilitated by AHEC Director on social
determinants of health: discussion in person or online after reviewing WHO
materials http://www.who.int/topics/en/ or local talk from Native Hawaiian Center
of Excellence
3. Telehealth skills
4. Cultural competency module
http://empactconsortium.com/material/cultural-competency-assessment/
5. The Patient-Centered Medical Home: What You Need to Know:
http://www.ahecu.org/courses/
6. ECHO distance learning session on behavioral health integration into primary care: echohawaii.org (1 hour)
7. Emerging health topics from local presenters www.cdc.gov/zika/pdfs/grandrounds_nursing_scriptfaq.pdf
8. Additional modules include HIPAA compliance, communication skills, or courses offered through AHEC U: http://www.ahecu.org/courses/ or WHO: http://www.who.int/topics/en/