National AHEC Organization Goals

• 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.