{"id":2290,"date":"2018-04-18T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/?page_id=2290"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:44:46","slug":"ahec","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/outreach\/ahec\/","title":{"rendered":"AHEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is AHEC?<\/h3>\n<p>The acronym AHEC stands for Area Health Education Centers.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Sciences AHEC office partners with the North Carolina AHEC system to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/outreach\/ahec\/allied-health-hot-topics\/\">continuing education offerings<\/a> to Allied Health Practitioners throughout North Carolina; the clinical placement of students for training purposes in rural and urban communities; and for the provision of technical assistance and consultative services. The state&#8217;s highly successful Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program is administered through the School of Medicine with nine regional centers and linkages throughout the state.<\/p>\n<h3>Regional Centers<\/h3>\n<p>There are nine AHECs that employ nearly one hundred full and part-time faculty with appointments to professional schools at UNC-Chapel Hill. This program has established teaching programs for health sciences students at a number of community hospitals and practice sites throughout the state. These well-supervised experiences serve to develop clinical skills, demonstrate primary care practice, and expose students to the opportunities and challenges of allied health practice in community-based health care settings.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3236\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1034px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncahec.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3236 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/628\/2018\/07\/AHEC-map-1024x518.png\" alt=\"NC AHEC\" width=\"1024\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/628\/2018\/07\/AHEC-map-1024x518.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/628\/2018\/07\/AHEC-map-150x76.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/628\/2018\/07\/AHEC-map-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/628\/2018\/07\/AHEC-map-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/628\/2018\/07\/AHEC-map.png 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">NC AHEC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">NC AHEC Regions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arealahec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Area L<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteahec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlotte<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eahec.ecu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eastern<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gahec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greensboro<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahec.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mountain<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/northwestahec.wfubmc.edu\/courseware_v3\/3_0_0\/?_webFlowTransitionId=GOHOME&amp;method=doTransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northwest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncahec.net\/location\/southeast-ahec\/\">South East<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernregionalahec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southern Regional<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakeahec.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wake<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/my.ncahec.net\/login.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Student Housing Information<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The office of Student Services &amp; AHEC Operations provides assistance to students seeking to obtain housing while being assigned to various clinical rotations.<\/p>\n<h3>AHEC Questions?<\/h3>\n<p>Contact Dr. Hannah Siburt via email at <a href=\"mailto:hannah_siburt@med.unc.edu\">hannah_siburt@med.unc.edu<\/a>. Request a course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/outreach\/ahec\/ahec-request-form\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is AHEC? The acronym AHEC stands for Area Health Education Centers. The Health Sciences AHEC office partners with the North Carolina AHEC system to provide continuing education offerings to Allied Health Practitioners throughout North Carolina; the clinical placement of students for training purposes in rural and urban communities; and for the provision of technical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/outreach\/ahec\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AHEC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55977,"featured_media":0,"parent":4345,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"template-home":[],"class_list":["post-2290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AHEC | Department of Health Sciences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/outreach\/ahec\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AHEC | Department of Health Sciences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is AHEC? 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