What We Do

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AHEC librarians are here to answer your questions!

Libraries are a core part of the education and support that AHEC provides to North Carolina. Each of the nine AHEC locations has its own library, complete with a librarian staff prepared to meet the unique needs of the health care providers in their counties. In addition to this support, the AHEC Digital Library ensures that all providers in the state have high-quality health information at their fingertips.

Anyone can use the AHEC Digital Library.

Did you know? Anyone and everyone can access the AHEC Digital Library! We welcome individual guest users, who may use any of the resources that are not restricted by license to members, including resources for nursing and interprofessional practice and education, the Opioid Addiction Treatment Guide, and ABOG articles for certification.

AHEC librarians help North Carolina health professionals in every county.

The AHEC library network touches every county in North Carolina. In 2016-17, AHEC’s librarians provided information, education, and support through more than 400,000 service interactions with health care providers across the state.

How Can We Help?

AHEC librarians support any and all information needs of North Carolina’s health care providers. Whether you are a rural family physician in the mountains, a nursing student near the coast, or a mental health professional in the piedmont, NC AHEC libraries will support your clinical, educational, or research activities.

NC AHEC library services include literature searches to answer your health care related questions, one-on-one help with PubMed and other biomedical databases, exhaustive literature reviews to support health care research, support for the presentation or publication of research results, ensuring easy access to critical information for continuing professional development and AHEC special topic initiatives, setting up alerts and quick access to help you stay current with health news, and more!

Visit NC AHEC Libraries for more information on your local AHEC library or the library resources available to you through the AHEC Digital Library’s online portal.

AHEC Digital Library Membership Categories

Non-restricted content in the AHEC Digital Library is available to everyone, but if you need more access, we offer membership in four categories: 1) North Carolina Health Care Professionals Individual Memberships, 2) Community-Based Preceptors, Faculty, and Medical Residents ADL Memberships, 3) North Carolina Hospital Members, and 4) Collaborators on AHEC Health Quality and Workforce Initiatives.

An ADL membership provides access to full-text journals, books, and electronic databases as well as special health topic collections and links to carefully evaluated clinical and educational tools. The collection is compiled and vetted by knowledgeable AHEC librarians to support health care practice and clinical education in North Carolina.

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Library Services

Courses & Events

NC AHEC’s continuing professional development programs offer the very best in live, online, and blended learning.

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Statewide Course Calendar

Our statewide course calendar is part of MyAHEC – our online portal that provides personalized services and resources to North Carolina’s health care professionals. MyAHEC combines resources from the nine NC AHEC regional offices and the Duke AHEC office and makes them available on a single website to a statewide audience. The available resources vary by user and are designed to provide the services and information required by each individual user based on their relationship(s) to NC AHEC.

A MyAHEC account is not required to use the calendar, though many MyAHEC features are only available to MyAHEC account holders who are logged in.

To begin the MyAHEC account creation process, go to the login page and follow the instructions under New Users.

MyAHEC

MyAHEC is an online service of the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) Program, providing personalized services and resources to North Carolina’s health care professionals.

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MyAHEC Resources

My AHEC MyAHEC combines resources from the nine NC AHEC regional offices and the Duke AHEC office and makes them available on a single website to a statewide audience. The available resources vary by user and are designed to provide the services and information required by each individual user based on their relationship(s) to NC AHEC.

MyAHEC currently provides services and resources to continuing professional development participants and presenters, students requesting NC AHEC housing, and anyone wishing to receive NC AHEC marketing materials.

Future versions of MyAHEC are planned to support the AHEC-related activities of school or departmental liaisons, NC AHEC preceptors, residents, students, NC AHEC staff, and others.

Who should use MyAHEC?

MyAHEC currently provides online resources to:

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Participants
– Search the NC AHEC calendar for upcoming NC AHEC continuing professional development events.
– Track your completed continuing professional development events using the online CPD Record service.
– Check your registrations for upcoming CPD events and download related documents.

Continuing Professional Development Presenters
– Use the presenter’s CPD Record service to track continuing profession development events at which you have presented.
– View a roster of participants for your CPD classes.
– Upload documents to share with registered participants.

Health Sciences Students
– Request NC AHEC housing for your North Carolina community-based rotation.
– Check the status of your housing requests.

Anyone wishing to receive NC AHEC marketing materials
– Request marketing materials on topics of interest to you.

Questions?

Do I have to create a MyAHEC account to use the website?

A MyAHEC account is not required to use the website, though many of the site’s features are only available to MyAHEC account holders who are logged in. For example, MyAHEC offers an AHEC continuing professional development calendar that is available to all users and does not require an account. However, the CPD Record feature of MyAHEC is only available to account holders who are logged in.

How do I create a MyAHEC account?