Medical School Hotline: Celebrating 15 Years of the Area Health Education Center at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The Area Health Education Center (AHEC) debuted in the (then named) Hawai‘i Medical Journal in November 2000, with a Medical School Hotline article titled The Role of AHEC in Medical Education. This article described an emerging AHEC program with two regional community-based centers in Hilo and Lihue. These centers worked to provide the entire State of Hawai‘i with health careers recruitment for K-12 students, support for continuing education, community-based education, and training of health care professional students in interprofessional teams. They strove to meet the federal mandate of the AHEC Program: to enhance access to high quality, culturally competent health care through academic-community partnerships to ultimately improve the distribution, diversity, and supply of the primary care health professions workforce who serve in rural and underserved health care delivery sites. Fifteen years later, we can reminisce about AHEC's humble (yet ambitious) beginnings and speculate about our future growth.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: Kelley Withy, Christopher Hill, Kira Hughes, Kauionalani Mead, Gina Cummings
Institutions: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Hawaii System
Language: English
Topic: Health and Medical Education
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2410448214