The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) Program
Mission
NC AHEC provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina
Vision
We envision a state where everyone in North Carolina is healthy and supported by an appropriate and well-trained health workforce that reflects the communities it serves.
Values
EXcellence
We deliver quality activities and services that our customers and partners value.
Diversity
We promote equity and inclusivity.
integrity
We act with fairness, transparency, and the highest level of ethics.
collaboration
We value partnerships and support interprofessional approaches.
improvement
We continuously innovate and improve our work.
NC AHEC Scholars
Join a national network of AHEC Scholars and develop the skills you need to make a difference in our state of health.
Be a part of an interprofessional cadre of health professionals committed to community service and to transforming health care in North Carolina.
The NC AHEC Scholars Program recruits, trains, and supports a diverse group of students from across the state, creating a multidisciplinary team of health professionals committed to both community service and the transformation of health care in North Carolina.
With an emphasis on individuals from underrepresented minorities, disadvantaged/rural backgrounds, and first-generation college students, the NC AHEC Scholars Program aims to improve the diversity and distribution of all health professions and to support health systems transformation across the state. Each class of NC AHEC Scholars represents a variety of health professions and institutions from every region of North Carolina.
Selected applicants participate in a two-year educational program and may receive a subsidy, subject to academic or institutional approval. Each AHEC Scholar will receive an NC AHEC Scholars Certificate, setting them apart from other students in an increasingly competitive environment. Selected scholars will also have the chance to meet leaders in health care and make connections with other participants, creating an invaluable network for their future careers in health care.
The NC AHEC Scholars Experience
Co-created and co-taught by faculty across the state, with both statewide and regional components, the two-year NC AHEC Scholars Program includes 40 hours of didactics and 40 hours of clinical work each year. Scholars develop new skills and are introduced to an interprofessional framework that will be crucial to improving health and health care.
Community experiences in a clinical setting are a foundational component of the NC AHEC Scholars Program.
The program will begin in September and run through May each year, beginning in 2018-19. Curricular components of the NC AHEC Scholars Program may include interprofessional education, behavioral health education, social determinants of health, cultural competency, practice transformation, practical clinical skills, prevention, systems science, model for improvement, disparities, current and emerging issues, and regional topics.
Your certification as an AHEC Community Health Scholar will announce to the world that you have the knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary to make a difference in health care.
Our Partners
The AHEC Scholars Program is part of the National AHEC Organization, which supports and advances the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) network to improve health by leading the nation in recruitment, training, and retention of a diverse health care work force for underserved communities. Visit nationalahec.org for more information.
Key statewide partners in the NC AHEC Scholars Program include:
MedServe,
I3 Value,
the North Carolina Community College system,
the University of North Carolina Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research,
the NC Office of Rural Health,
the NC Association of Health Professions Advisors,
the NC Alliance for Health Professions’ Diversity,
the NC Office of Minority Health,
AmeriiCorps VISTA,
the state’s five medical schools (Campbell, Duke, East Carolina, UNC Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest universities), and
more than two dozen other health professions education training programs.
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Area L AHEC 252-972-6958
Charlotte AHEC 704-512-6523
Duke AHEC Program 919-684-8676
Eastern AHEC 252-744-5221
Greensboro AHEC 336-832-8025
Mountain AHEC 828-257-4400
NC AHEC Program Office 919-966-2461
Northwest AHEC 336-713-7700
South East AHEC 910-343-0161
Southern Regional AHEC 910-323-1152
Wake AHEC 919-350-8547
Student Services
We support students, preceptors, and health science schools.
Health science students from many North Carolina colleges and universities studying allied health, dentistry, medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacy, and social work receive part of their training under NC AHEC auspices in community hospitals, physician’s offices, rural health centers, public health departments, mental health centers, and other health-related settings.
The nine regional AHECs enable statewide community-based training for health professionals in an effort to reverse a trend toward shortages and uneven distribution of health care practitioners in the state’s rural areas.
We also facilitate quality, community-based, primary care education for health science students. Begun in 1993 under the name NC AHECOffice of Regional Primary Care Education (ORPCE) , we provided assistance in that first year to 595 individual students; this number has now reached more than 2,500.
Currently, NC AHEC Student Services facilitates the teaching of medical, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, certified nurse midwifery, and UNC-Chapel Hill PharmD students in 1,382 community sites and with more than 2,180 individual preceptors across the state.
NC AHEC Student Services offers short-term lodging for health science students who are completing community-based rotations in North Carolina. The nine regional AHECs provide housing in 54 counties in approximately 70 towns/cities across the state.
High quality community-based education depends on effective partnerships between the health science schools, regional AHECs, and practicing clinicians.
