The Physician Assistant Learner Support (PALS) program is a grant supported targeted intervention for high school students in rural, underserved and primarily minority Texas communities. The program goals are to attract African American and Hispanic students to PA careers and prepare them to enter training programs. While focused on the PA profession, the methodology is relevant to addressing disparities in workforce diversity in any health career.
The session will include a panel of AHEC Centers and AHEC Programs that incorporate the results of the recent National AHEC survey assessing emerging and promising evaluation practices for: a) Health careers promotion and preparation, b) Community-based student education and c) Professional education.
THANK YOU TO CATSKILL HUDSON AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
This session will share the successes, challenges and other learning experiences of NAO and five AHEC awardees (but six sites) selected to participate in a year-long pilot project replicating a National Library of Medicine health literacy curriculum, Project SHARE (Student Health Advocates Redefining Empowerment.)
THANK YOU TO INDIANA AHEC NETWORK FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Innovative dental program that benefits both students, Veterans, and the community. Special days are planned to address the dental needs of our US Veterans, who are one of our most vulnerable populations. Started in one clinic, then went regional and now is spreading across the State of Indiana. Let's take this national!
THANK YOU TO BALTIMORE AHEC, EASTERN SHORE AHEC AND AHEC WEST FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
ICBHTC is a one-year experience that provides students clinical, public health and policy exposure and IPE didactics. A narrative description and preliminary evaluation ICBHTC will be presented. The evaluation includes satisfaction, knowledge and intent to practice measures. Barriers to achieving IPE and an IPE-based learning community will be discussed.
This presentation will include a discussion of the steps taken to plan, develop and implement a Continuing Interprofessional Educational learning event that effectively meets the needs of a geographic region. A discussion and review of the learning model, development, and community outcomes will be provided.
Succession planning is a key component of ensuring sustainability. Many organizations never address this need until a CEO announces a pending departure. Correctly done, it is an ongoing process that raises the performance of all staff immediately. In this presentation, learn how to get started and obtain resources to make the job easier.
THANK YOU TO CENTRAL CT AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Career exploration, and subsequent planning of educational and life goals, is vital for high school students. However, traditional summer camp programs do not provide the proper timeframe structure for teenaged students due to the fact that many have summer jobs. One possible solution is to teach them on THEIR time.
THANK YOU TO MANHATTAN STATEN ISLAND AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Bioinformatics is in a period of rapid growth and genomics is becoming increasingly important to the life sciences and health care. Learn about a STEM career partnership, developed between AHEC and an Academic Institution that supports health care career paths for underrepresented and disadvantaged students.
Successful continuing education programs begin with successful planning! This presentation will walk through the process of program planning from beginning to end. This includes content creation, budgeting, logistics, working with partners and planning within credit guidelines. The presenters will share tips and tools for organizing and delivering a successful learning activity.
Interprofessional healthcare greatly improves health outcomes for at risk populations. Providing students opportunities for interprofessional education improves collaboration and quality patient care. In 2015, 900 Health Professions students from CU Anschutz volunteered at the National Western Stock Show providing free screenings for adults and children from rural and underserved areas.
The NC AHEC Program has designed a statewide tool to document high school student’s preparation for careers in healthcare. The presentation will discuss the Passport process from the initial statewide needs assessment to the reaction from our first group of Passport completers and program partners.
THANK YOU TO NEVADA AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Simulation training for health professions students can be integral to their real life clinical skills practices. We prepared and conducted a high fidelity simulation competition during our EMS Conference and also offered several simulation scenarios to our rural clerkship students. This program offers our experience as a model for other programs to use in the education of their medical students and professionals.
This presentation will share the experiences of rural high school students with limited or no access to health career curricula, who participated in the Health S.T.A.R.-Student Training and Access to Resources program. Additionally, how community partnerships were formed, the challenges and lessons learned and results from student tracking efforts.
Are you in search of new ways to move individuals from being underserved in health care to serving others as a healthcare practitioner? Join us and see how Southern Utah AHEC cultivates students at the high school, college, and graduate level through an innovative pipeline program serving 18 rural counties.
THANK YOU TO MID CAROLINA AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
With an increasing number of students seeking acceptance into health careers, many health professions programs are incorporating the Certified Nursing Assistant course as an opportunity for students to 1) develop basic clinical skills, 2) develop a professional network and 3) increase access for service learning and community-based involvement.
The Stellenbosch University Area Health Education Centre (AHEC) intervention has been adapted from the USA and implemented as a pilot project in Western Cape (WC), South Africa. The adapted project focuses on increasing access to tertiary health sciences education for learners from rural areas in the Western Cape
THANK YOU TO NEVADA AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Moving the CHW concept in Texas from status quo to the next level in order to effect policy change and mainstream acceptance. There are multiple evidenced-based articles that repeatedly point out the benefits of adding CHWs to health care teams. So why do health care providers still shy away from hiring CHWs? Employer education and awareness can be the key.
THANK YOU TO MANHATTAN STATEN ISLAND AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
To foster collaborative relationships that support cancer and chronic disease integration efforts, four regional AHECs in Florida, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Vermont are partnering with the George Washington University Cancer Institute to convene annual community roundtables. This presentation will describe the project's development, early successes, challenges, and potential for replication.
This presentation will focus on the relationships that the New Mexico AHEC program has developed with federal, state and locally funded partner organizations to enhance the development of a sophisticated certification program for Community Health Workers. This collaboration contributed to the official certification and recognition of community-based healthcare efforts.
THANK YOU TO SOUTHWESTERN CT AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
As a busy healthcare professional, how would you react to a student shadowing you for one hour each day for nine weeks? Learn more about a School-to-Career program that was revamped by AHEC to meet requirements and availability of the healthcare setting while enhancing opportunities for students.
This workshop explores the California AHEC’s Public Health Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Project, which provides IPV education and tools for primary care clinics. We will discuss webinar content; epidemiology, health effects, laws and regulations, culturally relevant general screening principles, and trauma-informed case-based scenarios as well as a reference guide that delivers in-depth, actionable IPV information in a clinic-role specific format.
Although not speaking at this session, we would like to recognize the additional developers of this project:
Harise Stein, MD, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of OB/Gyn and chair Stanford University Medical Center’s Family Abuse Prevention Center
Virginia Fowkes, FNP, MHS, Evaluation and Strategic Planning Director, California Statewide AHEC Program, Sr. Research Scholar, Stanford University School of Medicine
THANK YOU TO MISSOURI AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Healthcare professionals are particularly vulnerable to the development of Compassion Fatigue. Enhanced understanding of this condition and strategies to prevent/recover from it will lead to an improved quality of care for patients as well as an enhanced quality of life for the professionals who care for them.
THANK YOU TO CENTRAL FLORIDA AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
An academic health center partners with a Federally Qualified Health Center, a dementia institute and an Aging and Disability Resource Center to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes for older adults with a focus on Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement projects. This model creates processes that can be replicated in other settings.
THANK YOU TO GULFCOAST SOUTH AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
We provide an overview of the growing field of community health workers, an AHEC’s role in their professional development as valuable members of primary health care teams. We present specific models integrating CHWs into outreach programs to access care and CHW utilization to improve cultural competency in medical residency training.
To document the successful influence AHEC has on increasing the number of people entering health careers and/or working in MUAs, Texas AHEC East began in 2011 a major refinement of our process and system supports for maintaining contact with and noting milestone accomplishments of prior program participants. Results of the 2015 Milestone Initiative will be shared in the presentation.
This session is a follow-up to a presentation at the 2014 NAO Conference that outlined how a competency-based education model can demonstrate the value of AHEC Health Careers Promotion and Preparation (HCPP) programs at the local, state and national level. Since then, a sub-committee of NAO CORE has explored how to implement the model. From sub-committee members, you’ll learn how to develop and map learning objectives to 5 HCPP core competencies, and learn ways to measure student learning. We’ll also discuss how to disseminate the results to showcase the value of HCPP programs. Bring your HCPP program info, learning objectives, and evaluation tools to share. Examples will also be provided.
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THANK YOU TO MARYLAND PROGRAM OFFICE - AHEC WEST FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Disparities regarding the mal-distribution of healthcare workforce is a persistent problem that AHEC’s play a key role in trying to resolve through program planning, partnerships and placements. We’ll demonstrate how AHEC’s can use our free national portal to view quality and consistent data regarding population health and workforce.
THANK YOU TO ERIE NIAGARA AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
The next AHEC Funding Opportunity Announcement may have a requirement for Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement plan for the continuous monitoring of project processes, outcomes and progress toward goals and objectives. In this session, participants explore the concept and importance of quality improvement (QI), learn about QI methods emphasizing on rapid cycle quality improvement (RCQI) processes. The session includes a review of an RCQI project, methods and tools used and outcomes. Ideas, challenges and best practices for initiating and continuing RCQI strategies will actively be engaged and discussed. Individuals and teams with all levels of knowledge of QI are encouraged to attend.
THANK YOU TO EVERGLADES AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
The presentation will illustrate the implementation of Continuing Interprofessional Education (CIPE) at a local AHEC as a part of a system-wide effort of the NC AHEC Program. The presentation will discuss the difference between IPE and CIPE and guide participants on how to plan, implement and measure a CIPE program. Participants will also learn what barriers to expect and receive possible solutions.
Twitter is a logical extension to your email marketing for CE events. We will demonstrate a systematic method for using the growing social media platform to create awareness, add value to attendees, and create an enduring promotional vehicle for your activities using Twitter, Storify, and the Symplur Healthcare Hashtag Project.
Demand is increasing for collaborative practice ready graduates. To meet this demand in Kansas, we developed a pilot focusing on interprofessional (IP) practice experiences in rural Kansas at five sites. This initiative has been supported by the Area Health Education Center and Office of Rural Health. Preliminary results have exceeded our expectations and data continue to be analyzed. We will share lessons learned and provide a mini-development sessions for rural sites.
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an innovative medical education and mentoring model that builds primary care capacity while improving access to specialty health care in rural communities through weekly teleconferencing sessions that include a brief didactic pulse followed by peer-to-peer case discussion. Hawaii AHEC introduced this program for Behavioral Health training in January 2016 and expects to provide over 5,000 hours of CME a year at modest cost.
THANK YOU TO BROOKLYN QUEENS LONG ISLAND AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Physicians' practice managers of over 15 years' combined experience share inside information about creating a successful collaboration with current preceptors and their employees as well as offering specific suggestions for recruiting new providers and their entire staff into embracing community based learning as an integral part of their practice.
THANK YOU TO SOUTH CAROLINA AHEC PROGRAM OFFICE FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
The South Carolina AHEC has developed state-of-the-art, evidence-based modules for management of hypertension. Through academic and community-based partnerships, the SC AHEC is supporting primary care providers across the state and nation though online modules that feature internationally recognized faculty, focus on the latest research, and practice guidelines.
THANK YOU TO WNY RURAL AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Statistics and trends show healthcare workforce flow is transitioning to a technology-based pathway. This presentation offers participants a best practice example of how AHECs can play a leading role in providing technology-based solutions to community partners in healthcare training, employment, and community development.
THANK YOU TO NY STATEWIDE AHEC OFFICE FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
This session will teach participants how to find evidence-based models and program innovations for AHECs working in rural areas. Participants will learn how to make connections, find funding sources, learn about program implementation, and address barriers to success for rural programs.
THANK YOU TO MISSOURI AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
The Bryant Scholars Program was developed to attract students who have both a rural background and an interest in practicing rural medicine for pre-admission to University of Missouri School of Medicine. Seventy-four percent of Bryant Scholars now practice in Missouri, and 66 percent practice in rural locations.
AHECs and Tribal Colleges are both underrated organizations who often miss the spotlight in their efforts to promote higher education and training to underserved populations. However, joining forces, these organizations are able to work in unison, creating culturally relevant programming designed to support American Indian and Alaska Native students throughout their journey into the healthcare field. This presentation will encourage and support AHECs in developing partnerships with TCUs.
THANK YOU TO UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Wisconsin AHEC’s program office convened a statewide “Day at the Capitol” event, involving all 7 regional AHECs. The 65 delegates included students (high school through medical school), health professionals, faculty, and board members. Participants developed advocacy skills, and then conducted 48 meetings with legislators at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
THANK YOU TO NORTHWESTERN CT AHEC FOR SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP!
Youth Mental Health First Aid Corps is an innovative AmeriCorps program that builds capacity at AHECs to offer YMHFA certification classes in the communities they serve. YMHFA is an evidence-based public health program that helps communities identify, understand, and respond to adolescents showing signs of a mental illness. The YMHFA Corps is in its third year of a three-year program cycle, and is poised to grow in scope and impact. Learn how to become part of this exciting movement.
One Way Transfer to Capitol Hill
7:00 AM: Buses will stage at Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th Street, NW (K Street)
7:30 AM-8:00 AM: Guests begin to board vehicles and depart for Capitol Hill, drop off point - Upper Senate Park
8:00-8:30 AM: Guests arrive at Upper Senate Park
*** Buses will pickup and drop off at the Renaissance Hotel. ***
The magical feeling of this illuminated city will give you an entirely new perspective of the nation's capital.
Washington is resplendent at night when the monuments shine in the darkness. See the Smithsonian Museums, specifically the Castle, shine with a divine silhouette against the evening sky. From this vantage point the beautifully lit Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol Building offer incredible photo opportunities. The Jefferson Memorial is a grand homage to the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and one of our founding fathers.
Next, guests will have the chance to view the National World War II Memorial, which pays tribute to those who served in the “last great war.” Stroll through the National Mall to visit the Lincoln, Vietnam Veterans and Korean War Veterans Memorials. The Lincoln Memorial is magnificent at night, shimmering in the National Reflecting Pool. See the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial glow and reflect the etched names of over 58,000 men and women to whom it is dedicated.
Time permitting, the group will have the opportunity to visit the newest memorial in our nation’s capital, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
Tickets must be purchased in advance when you register for the meeting.
Schedule - Illuminated Washington Tour
8:00 PM: Vehicles Stage at Renaissance DC, 999 9th Street NW (K Street)
8:45 PM: Guests begin to board vehicles and depart for tour
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Tour
11:00 PM: Guests arrive at Renaissance DC, 999 Ninth Street NW
Achal Bhatt, PhD, who is a public health analyst in the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Dr. Bhatt will provide remarks during on the CDC’s partnership with NAO to provide education to health professionals regarding the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Through this 5-year cooperative agreement, approximately 50 AHECs nationwide are providing this CE in their regions.
Anthony Beck, PhD, who is in the Office of Science Education at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Beck will provide a brief presentation on how NAO might apply for a 5-year, $13M pre-college STEM grant from the NIH to improve workforce diversity and public health literacy. Based on the emphasis over the last decade on interagency communication and coordination, e.g., the STEM Consolidation plan from OMB in the FY14 Budget, this will begin a discussion on a long term partnering opportunity.
