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About the Georgia
Statewide AHEC
AHEC Centers
Annual Report
Careers in Healthcare
Medical Articles and Info
Patient Education
Professional Staff
Rural Health
Workforce Initiatives
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Program Objectives
The Georgia AHEC system's goal is to increase access to primary care
services in rural and urban underserved areas through the
recruitment, training and retention of primary
care health professionals. The AHEC is an educational
program for the health professions with specific objectives:
1. Recruit students from underserved, remote, rural, inner city and minority
communities into primary health care fields, including medicine, nursing,
social work, allied health and other health professions.
2. Train students in primary health care professions in community based
sites throughout both rural and urban underserved communities and expose
those students to the needs, challenges and career opportunities in these
medically underserved areas.
3. Increase the availability of continuing education programs, library and
information resources and other means of assisting isolated health care
practitioners to stay current in their respective fields.
4. Identify the most cost effective strategies to address the needs of
health professions as prioritized by regions. This includes analysis of
workforce data, focused utilization of existing resources and the
development of working partnerships and collaborations.
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