Develop Non-profit regional area health education center tot conduct health professions education with an emphasis on graduate-level students at sites remoter to the primary teaching facility.
Conduct health professions education with an emphasis on graduate-level students and integrate AHEC interdisciplinary team block rotations (4 Plus weeks) with the RHEP infrastructure.
Strengthen rural practice and coordination of patient care through interdisciplinary team building.
Provide continuing education to reduce professional isolation and improve health care.
Expand an existing health careers program (HSTA) for under represented and disadvantaged students statewide by establishing and AHEC component to facilitate career paths from pre-college to rural primary care.
Enhance recruitment and retention efforts at the community level.
Develop and enhance cooperative relationships between AHEC and WVRHEP program to better meet their mutual goals of recruitment and retention of an increased number of quality health care professionals practicing in rural underserved areas of WV.
