As with many of our other activities, we take the program to the health-care providers are, tailoring it to the needs of the institution. Continuing education is one link with Our Community Hospital. AHEC has also provided library resources and purchased equipment for extended loans to the hospital, he said. AHEC creates opportunities to mesh resources with health-care providers, helping those providers to care for patients, explained Webb. Ultimately, health professions students who rotate through Area L AHEC s five-county area spend a day at Our Community Hospital.
Students work with nurses or mid-level nurse practitioners in an interdisciplinary environment.
Rotation thus functions as a recruitment tool, where medical students and others preparing for health-care professions find and consider rural areas for their careers. Medical students see the great challenge of doctors in a rural community, he said. They see the leadership role of the physician and how it affects patient care.