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M Miller, J Shipley. 1998. AHEC students "try on" rural practice.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9529894/
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The State of Kansas was awarded Health Education Training Centers (HETC) DHHS/HRSA, BrHPr Federal funds for the first time in 2002 through 2005. The three-year grant award was under the leadership of the Nurse-Midwifery Education faculty of the University of Kansas (KU) School of Nursing. Federal objectives included: 1. To facilitate interdisciplinary clinical training for health professions students from nursing, medicine, and allied health at targeted underserved communities. 2. To deliver culturally appropriate health care information to underprivileged populations at targeted underserved communities. 3. To conduct continuing education activities for community health workers and health professionals serving vulnerable urban and rural populations. 4. To recruit and mentor high school students from disadvantaged populations to pursue health professions. This three-year state-wide program addressed access to quality health care for underprivileged and underserved populations in select communities to improve health status, through community-based care that is culturally competent, multidisciplinary, sensitive to needs of special populations and augmented by health professions students. This article provides a review of two selected community-based interventions in Sedgwick and Wyandotte counties (addressing BrHPr federal objectives one and two) implemented to enhance care for immigrant pregnant women and underserved patients diagnosed with diabetes, respectively. Also included is a review of literature related to the efficacy and utilization of community based health workers (CHWs) in caring for vulnerable populations.
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine (UKCOM) retains a long history of educational commitment, quality, and innovation. Since undergoing a major curricular revision in the early 1990s, the evolving UKCOM curriculum has continued to incorporate advances in biomedical knowledge and pedagogy while meeting changing societal needs and expectations for physicians in practice. Building upon its established record of excellence in medical education, a curricular quality assurance (QA) program has been initiated to more efficiently guide improvement and innovation by providing faculty with key resources to identify and disseminate local best practices in teaching, learning, and evaluation. Through such efforts, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine is committed to providing a rich educational experience that will meet the needs of students, physicians, and patients well into the 21st century.