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Incoming MSW students (plus EDP 2nd years) interested in serving rural or underserved populations – deadline 9/15/19

Two year supplemental program to earn the AHEC Scholars certificate
Students need to do 40 hours of interprofessional didactics (we provide that with an evening class once a year, six sessions). Each class can be taken for 1 credit or no cost/no credit
40 hours of interprofessional community or clinical training at a site that they volunteer at OR through their primary program (as long as the site is UNDESERVED AND/OR RURAL).
What do we mean by rural or underserved? The program office determines which sites count. We use the tool “Am I rural?” If a site doesn’t count as rural, we use HPSA designation, MUC or MUA designation or Governor’s Exception to determine if it counts as underserved. Some judgement calls are necessary.
What do we mean by Interprofessional? Students must work with or learn from more than one provider from another discipline. This could be nurses, MAs, PAs, etc. OR they can team up with another AHEC Scholar student from a different discipline and work/train at the same site together. Most clinical sites will provide enough IPE to count.
Kick off Dinner Event 9/25
Yearly Field trips
Graduation/Networking Event with potential employers in Year 2
Application deadline for Seattle cohort 9/15/19

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