Community-Based Student Education and Clinical Training To utilize hands-on experiences to improve practicing health profession students' skills and competencies necessary to enhance the quality of health care and provide transformative team-based care delivery within rural and underserved areas and populations.
The Indiana AHEC Network places medical and allied health students in clinical rotations all over the state, with a focus on primary care and rural/underserved areas. Pictured above are students gaining experience with Dr. Sneed (French Lick), Dr. Mungcal (Greensburg) and Dr. Yoder (Shipshewana). These students (pictured above) work with AHEC's in the South Central, East, and Northeast regional centers.
In partnership with the University of Southern Indiana’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, Southwest Indiana AHEC provided over 200 high school and college health professions students an experience with DementiaLive®. According to AGE-u-cate, this simulation immerses participants into life with dementia, resulting in a deeper understanding of what it’s like to live with cognitive impairment and sensory change.
West Central Indiana AHEC and occupational therapy faculty and sta from Indiana State University hosted a poverty simulation for students in health training programs. The simulation is intended to help participants understand life through the lens of poverty.
South Central Indiana AHEC had the privilege of partnering with COSMOS (Collaboration of Shoals, Mitchell, and Orleans Schools) health science students visiting Vincennes University to learn about their health science programs. These students have the opportunity to receive Blood Pathology training, First Aid training, Dementia Friendly training, and graduate with their Certi ed Nursing Assistant Licenses.
East Indiana AHEC's annual Interprofessional Education Day in Columbus included 90 students from ve clinical degree programs (IUPUC Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Mental Health Counseling plus Franklin College Athletic Training and Physician Assistant Studies). The day included interprofessional ice breakers, discussion prompts, and a case study that maximized patient outcomes when including input from di erent disciplines.
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