Education/Training
Staff Training/Education
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Area Health Education Centers
Its mission is to enhance access to quality health care, particularly
primary and preventive care, by improving the supply and distribution of
health care professionals through community/academic educational
partnerships.
For the Arizona AHEC Directory, please visit
http://www.nationalahec.org/Directory/AHEC-HETCDirectory.asp#Arizona
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Arizona Association of Community
Health Centers, Student/Resident Experiences and Rotations in Community
Health (SEARCH) Program
It is designed to provide opportunities for health
professions students and residents to serve in interdisciplinary primary
health care teams at Community Health Centers.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health,
Think Cultural Health
This site is sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH), offers the
latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care.
Its flagship program, A Family Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care, is a free online educational program accredited for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, Health Resources and Services Administration,
Cultural Competence in Cancer Care: A Health Care Professional's Passport
This document is hands on guide for the healthcare professional to deliver
culturally competent services. Copies can be obtained though Baylor College
of Medicine Intercultural Cancer Council, phone 713-798-4617 or online at:
http://iccnetwork.org.
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Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP)
Each year CCHCP provides trainings in linguistic and cultural competency in
numerous health and social service settings around the country. Our
trainings target three crucial arenas of a health care system: the staff who
provide care, the administrators who coordinate the delivery of care, and
the policy-makers who regulate the form and manner of its delivery.
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Interdisciplinary Student Community-Oriented Prevention Enhancement Service (ISCOPES)
It consists of
interdisciplinary health-profession students from the George Washington and
George Mason Universities, working in teams, doing service learning projects
with the community.
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Measuring Health Disparities
It was created to facilitate the use of the interactive course Measuring
Health Disparities developed by John Lynch, PhD, and Sam Harper, PhD, of
McGill University, and produced by the
Michigan Public Health Training
Center (MPHTC).
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The National Commission For Health Education Credentialing,
Inc. (NCHEC)
NCHEC's mission is to improve the
practice of health education and to serve the public and profession of
health education by certifying health education specialists, promoting
professional development, and strengthening professional preparation and
practice.
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University of Arizona, Health Education Program
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