National Goals and Pipeline
- Develop health careers recruitment programs in underserved rural and urban areas for under-represented and disadvantaged populations
- Support the community-based training of primary care health professions students and residents in health professional shortage areas and medically underserved areas, including multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary training
- Provide information dissemination, educational support, and technical assistance to reduce professional isolation, increase retention, and enhance the practice environment
- Promote improved health and increased disease prevention in a manner that responds to defined community needs, with emphasis on underserved areas and populations having demonstrated serious unmet health care needs.
In Rhode Island, the AHEC Program Office resides at Alpert Medical School with community-based centers in Woonsocket (Northern RI AHEC), in Providence at St Joseph's Hospital on Peace Street (Central RI AHEC) and as of June, 2009, the center for southern Rhode Island is located at the College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island (Southern RI AHEC). The RI AHEC Program is well on its way to establishing itself as a vital infrastructure designed to provide recruitment, retention and continuing education strategies to the providers and the agencies which serve the most vulnerable of Rhode Island's citizens.
The RI AHEC network has been successful, in a very short time, in establishing itself as one of the state's primary entities that can act as a broker/convener for academic health professions training programs, state agencies, and community-based organizations in their efforts to positively impact health outcomes for the citizens of Rhode Island.
