- Are assigned to an interprofessional Scholars team, a Faculty Mentor, and a Regional Center site.
- Commit to 80 hours/year for two years (didactic + community experiential learning).
- Consistent participation and attendance at monthly seminars, immersions, and RHPP conferences.
- Contact RHPP Director, Faculty Mentor and assigned Regional Center to obtain an excused absence for a participation activity.
- Understand that individual patients, families, communities and health providers are partners in shaping and delivering the educational experience.
- Participate in reflection, active learning, and critical inquiry.
- Engage directly with the community guided by their Faculty Mentor, RHPP Director, and AHEC Regional Center Director and Center team.
- Learn factors affecting the social determinants of health, cultural competency, behavioral health integration, practice transformation, and current and emerging health issues.
- Completion of all assignments.
- Active participation in group projects.
- Progress in learning from introductory experiences – reflective journaling.
- Review community health needs assessments and in the published literature; review publicly available health information and reports; develop and administer surveys; collect, synthesize, and report data; present findings using contemporary data visualizations targeted to specific audiences (e.g., lay public or a professional audience); assess the literature; and make recommendations to improve individual and community health.
- Learn how collaborative relationships, team-based care, and interprofessional approaches to problems – including community agencies, patients, and health providers – are used.
- Direct patient care experiences for all AHEC Scholars who are RHPP students are arranged by their RHPP Director, following their college’s protocols, policies, and procedures including clinical affiliation or preceptor agreements, faculty supervision and evaluation. These clinical training experiences are distinct from community immersion experiences that are the foundation of the AHEC Scholars Program.
- Some AIH-AHEC Scholars will not be affiliated with an RHPP. For these students, the AIH-AHEC Director will collaborate with NAU Department of Health Sciences for undergraduate nursing and public health students on direct patience care experiences following their college’s protocols, policies, and procedures including clinical affiliation or preceptor agreements, faculty supervision and evaluation.
