Program Information
AHEC Scholars offers online learning units and community-based experiences designed to give health professions students a deeper understanding of rural and urban health care, caring for underserved populations, and the importance of practice transformation in a clinical care setting.
Scholars will focus on five core issues – behavioral health integration, cultural competency, interprofessional education, practice transformation, and social determinants of health.
Program Hours Tracking and Requirements
Here you can track the hours you have submitted and have been recorded. Please email lewis706@pnw.edu if you see a discrepancy.
2023-2025 (begins October 2023)
Year 1 Program requirements must be completed by June 30, 2024.
- At least 25 AHEC Provided Experiential Hours
- Up to 15 Independent Hours
- 30 Canvas Didactic Hours
- 10 Alternative Didactic Hours
Year 1 Due Dates:
- Orientation:
- Block 1:
- Block 2:
- Block 3:
- Block 4:
- Block 5:
- Experiences Due: June 30, 2024
2022-2024
Year 2 Program requirements must be completed by June 30, 2024.
- At least 15 AHEC Provided Experiential Hours
- Up to 15 Independent Hours
- 10 Group Capstone Hours
- 10 Individual Capstone Hours
- 30 Canvas Didactic Hours
Year 2 Due Dates: (To begin July 1, 2023)
- Summer Break: July 1- 31
- Block 6: October 1, 2023
- Block 7: December 3, 2023
- Block 8: February 4, 2024
- Block 9: April 1, 2024
- Block 10: May 31, 2024
- Experiences Due: May 31, 2024
- AHEC Annual Conference: TBD (Usually first or second Friday of April)
Yearly Requirement Breakdown
40 Didactic Hours
- 30 required canvas work
- 10 flex hours
- Conferences
- Webinars
- Capstone Work
40 Experience Hours
- 10 hours (max) capstone work
- 10 hours min (15 hours max) independent work
- clinical
- healthcare work
- healthcare volunteer
- 15 hours (min) regionally planned
Program Objectives
Orientation
- Make Group Connections
Blocks 1-4
- Explore Your Community
Blocks 5-7
- Explore Your Community
Blocks 8 & 9
- Compile Community Data
Annual Conference
- Present Poster