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AHEC Scholars Community Healthcare Fellowship

East Indiana Area Health Education Center
Full-time
On-site
Indiana
Social Services, Behavioral Health, Training Program, Charitable / Free Clinic, Medical Students, Community-Based

Indiana AHEC Scholars: Community Healthcare Fellowship

East Indiana AHEC is pleased to invite health professions college students to apply for the AHEC Scholars Community Healthcare Fellowship.  AHEC Scholars participants will come away from the fellowship ready to enter the health professions workforce with a deeper understanding of providing healthcare to underserved populations, working in interprofessional teams, and caring for patients in the context of rural communities.

Indiana AHEC Scholars is a two-year program designed to improve a health professions student’s practice readiness skillset. Scholars is intended for students who have a strong interest in providing care to those living in rural and medically underserved communities across Indiana in positions such as physicians, physician assistants, nurses, public health practitioners, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, and other allied health occupations.

Indiana AHEC Scholars will participate in a mix of online training and community-based learning in rural and underserved communities throughout the state. Through these experiences, students train side-by-side with healthcare professionals and community members. Obtaining these skills and practices in the field allows Scholars to increase knowledge, develop expertise, clarify values and develop their capacity to contribute to communities in need.

  • Students will be part of an interprofessional group of participants and have the chance to learn with, from, and about students from other health care disciplines.
  • Students will be assigned to teams based on their geographic location within the EI-AHEC region to make in-person learning activities as accessible as possible.
  • Students will receive a stipend each semester program to support their participation.  The stipend amounts increment up each semester a Scholar progresses throught the program and will total $1,800 over two years.
  • Students will take part in 40 hours of online learning and 40 hours of in-person field experiences each year of the program.

    • AHEC Scholars Core Topics

    • + Behavioral Health Integration
    • + Emerging Topics
    • + Interprofessional Practice
    • + Practice Transformation
    • + Health Professionals
    • + Virtual Learning and Telehealth

    Curriculum

    + Academic Year

    The Scholars program typically begins in October and runs through May of the second year.

    + Community-based Learning

    Students will participate in 40 hours of community-based learning in the field each year. Many students complete their community-based learning in a small rural community, but there are also options for working with urban underserved populations. Community-based learning components take place in clinics, hospitals, schools and community organizations.

    + Online Training

    Students complete 40 hours each year of online didactic training using an online Learning Management System.

    East Indiana AHEC’s cohort of Indiana AHEC Scholars Community Healthcare Fellows is open to students in the final two years of an accredited health professions program who are residents of, who attend college in, or who have other strong ties to the East Indiana AHEC service region.  (Bartholomew, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Jennings, Jefferson, Ohio, Ripley, Rush, Switzerland, Union, and Wayne Counties)

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