Program Director Executive Director LSU Health Shreveport AHEC - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Aileen Edwards Harris, MSA Executive Director Capital Area Health Education Center Wanda H. Thomas, MD, FAAP Program Director LSU Health Shreveport AHEC

The National AHEC Organization The National AHEC Organization represents a network of more than 300 AHEC program offices and centers that serve over 85% of United States

• counties. The NAO mission is to help its members achieve the AHEC

mission through advocacy, education, and research. The AHEC mission is to enhance access to quality health care, particularly primary and preventive care, by improving the supply and distribution of healthcare professionals via strategic partnerships with academic programs, communities, and professional

• rganizations.

AHEC Priorities – Diversity, Distribution, Practice Transformation

AHEC SCHOLARS PROGRAM

Criteria:

 Must last for a minimum of two years and culminate

in the completion of and/or graduation from a degree or certificate program

 Formal application process with defined eligibility

criteria

 New cohorts each academic year of the project

period (per AHEC center)

 Interdisciplinary curriculum with discipline-specific

points of entry, exit and objectives

 Clinical, didactic, and community-based and team-

based training activities

 A minimum of 40*hours of didactic education outside

• f traditional curriculum

 A minimum of 40*hours of clinical education must

consist of participation in team-based training

 Placements in rural and/or underserved settings  One year follow-up is required

HRSA is requiring AHEC to create and implement a longitudinal program – AHEC Scholars - which will include interdisciplinary curricula that implements a defined set of clinical, didactic, and community-based training activities in rural and/or underserved areas for a cohort of health professions students.

AHEC SCHOLARS PROGRAM

Effective partnerships are important to implementing, advancing, and sustaining the work of the AHEC Program

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Rural Scholars Program: A Model Pipeline Program Success at LSU Health Shreveport Program Office Eligibility Requirements:

• Have a minimum ACT score of 22 and a college GPA of 3.0 or

higher

• Be a full-time student in a college or university
• Be from a hometown with a population 20,000 or less
• Have been a past AHEC program participant in one of AHEC’s

youth enticement programs, including A-HEC of a Summer, Day with the Docs, M*A*S*H or the LSU Pre-Med Camp

• And have a demonstrated commitment to return to a rural family

medicine practice in Louisiana

Anticipated Benefits:

• Tour of the University Health Shreveport

campus

• Meet with faculty members and medical

students

• Learn medical school interview

techniques and explore the application process

• Review for the MCAT
• Receive financial aid information
• Be paired with faculty and student

mentors from University Health Shreveport, as well as community primary care physician mentors

• Be introduced to problem based

learning through patient care and learn the techniques of basic skills assessment, patient history, first-aid, and basic life support

• Gain knowledge about community

based care

AHEC Scholars Program – OPEN DIALOGUE

What will sell this program to health profession schools and health profession

students?

What’s in it for the students? Will there be incentives?