This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH), offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care. You may access free online courses accredited for continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help you and your organization promote respectful, understandable, and effective care to your increasingly diverse patients.
This month's issue includes: 10 Charting Handout: A guide compiled by the HepTalk team to help you assess the risk assessment portion of your clinic’s forms. 2. Three articles regarding the effectiveness of charts, checklists, and other tools to increase preventive care. 3. Two articles regarding the use of EMR (electronic medical records).
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When we traveled across the country to visit your clinics, many of you expressed concerns about lack of funding for adult immunization and testing. Reprinted from the Immunization Action Coalition, we pass along an opportunity: IAC Express, Issue Number 642, January 24, 2007.
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This site contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats. They are being developed to study the value of these formats in providing health information for diverse populations in a variety of settings.
Provides scholarships to full-time, financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds, enrolled in health professions and nursing programs.
NHSC grants matching funds directly to States to operate their own loan repayment programs. Primary care health professionals who are providing full-time clinical services in a public or non-profit facility located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area are eligible for this program.
Provides health professions students and residents with opportunities to work on interdisciplinary health care teams. Currently, 21 states and U.S. territories offer SEARCH programs, extending a unique, hands-on, primary care training experience working with people in underserved rural and urban areas.
Agenda includes expanding access to quality health care, increasing opportunities in medical education, cultural competence, and research for Latinos. Another focus is policy development and education efforts focused on eliminating health disparities faced by Latinos.
As the nation's action, advocacy, and research forum for Hispanic health and well being, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health informs and mobilizes consumers, supports health and human service providers in the delivery of quality care, improves the science base for accurate decision making by promoting better and more inclusive research, promotes appropriate use of technology, insures accountability and advocates on behalf of Hispanics, and promotes philanthropy.
Online Job Bank. You may contact them at: 7200 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 210, Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone: 301-347-0400, Fax: 301-347-0459
Provides information on communities that are currently recruiting primary care clinicians and is not exclusive to NHSC Scholars and those interested in the NHSC Loan Repayment Program.
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Sponsors an internet-based job bank at www.midwifejobs.com, for which they charge $250 for a 4-week listing. ACNM also has a description of Federally Qualified Health Centers in relation to the midwifery profession.
The American Academy of Physician Assistants uses the same database, as do other professional organizations,
An online Job Bank for family physicians.
Operates an online job bank
Online Job Bank. Family physicians remain in high demand and have a variety of practice settings available to them. To view your options and current openings
PedJobs is the official employment resource of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is free to the job seeker.
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is a student-governed, national organization representing the concerns of physicians-in-training.
To champion the cause of health care quality and to accelerate improvement in the value of the health care we deliver.
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A non-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world.
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If you are interested in a clinical job posting with a community health center in AK, ID, OR or WA, please visit our clinical job listing to search for positions and upload your information.
AHECs (Area Health Education Centers) and HETCs (Health Education Training Centers) have regional offices which provide community placements, service learning opportunities and clinical experiences for medical, dental, physician assistant, nursing, pharmacy and allied health students in rural and urban underserved communities. Programs also focus on recruitment, placement, and retention activities to address community and state health care workforce needs.
Includes current issues, funding announcements, and a "Guide to Grants."
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If you don't know your way around the federal programs, this friendly user-interface will guide you to the right source of money or contact.
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Improving the health and healthcare of all Americans
Strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.