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AHEC Scholars

Pennsylvania AHEC Scholars Program

The Pennsylvania AHEC Scholars Program is a two-year, customizable program that aims to prepare health professions and allied health students to care for rural and underserved patients and other vulnerable populations. It is our goal that through this program, AHEC Scholars will approach learning, future patient care, and research in a manner that is culturally competent, interprofessional, holistic, and responsive to current and emerging health needs.

The program prepares health professional and allied health students interested in rural and underserved care to provide continuously improving care in a transforming health care system. This care will be culturally competent, interprofessional, holistically integrated, and responsive to current and emerging health needs and social determinants of health in rural and underserved communities. Scholars will learn to provide continuously improving rapid care in a rapidly changing health care system through didactic and community-based experiential activities that focus on six core topic areas related to individual and population health, health care delivery, and health outcomes.

Program Components

Virtual Orientation
Speaker Series
Health Equity Immersions
Skill Advancement
Experiential Learning


Those six core topics include:

  1. Interprofessional Education
  2. Social Determinants of Health
  3. Practice Transformation
  4. Cultural Competency
  5. Behavioral Health
  6. Current and Emerging Issues
  7. Virtual Learning and Telehealth
  8. Connecting Communities and Supporting Health Professionals

Program Eligibility

AHEC Scholars must have at least 2-years left in their degree program and, ideally, will be scholars for the final stretch of their academic journey.

Currently accepted disciplines:

  • Medical – Dental – Physician Assistant
  • Pharmacy – Nursing
  • Psychology (Masters/Doctorate)
  • Optometry – Social Work (Masters/Doctorate)
  • Occupational Therapy (Masters/Doctorate)
  • Public Health (Masters/Doctorate)
  • Social Work (Masters)


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For more information check out:
https://www.paahecscholars.org/

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