The TN AHEC Scholars Program is part of a national initiative that aims to prepare Tennessee's future health care workforce to become leaders in the transforming health care delivery system.
This program focuses on developing a culturally, competent healthcare workforce, with emphasis on training rural and underrepresented, minority and educationally disadvantaged students for practice in rural and/or underserved communities.
The TN AHEC Scholars Program seeks to develop, prepare, and sustain a culturally competent health care workforce that is prepared to deliver high quality care in a transforming heath care delivery system, with emphasis on training rural and urban underrepresented minority, and educationally disadvantaged students for practice in rural and/or underserved areas.
The curriculum includes a defined set of clinical, didactic, and community-based training activities (40 hours didactic and 40 hours clinical training per year).
It is designed to promote knowledge and skill in providing culturally competent care and health equity through didactic and experiential learning.
Training experiences will be team-based and include a formal, didactic component that addresses eight core topic areas:
Interprofessional Education | Behavioral Health Integration
Social Determinants of Health | Cultural Competency
Practice Transformation | Current and Emerging Health Issues
Virtual Learning and Telehealth
Connecting Communities and Supporting | Health Professionals
Contact Us:
McCaa Russum, MS, MHA
Area Health Education Center and Family Medical Residency Manager
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TN AHEC Scholars Program
David Olson
Interim, CEO
Jessica Hughes
Chief Financial Officer
Shannon Walker
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Reginique Green
Chief Clinical Officer
Willie (“Will”) J. Jackson, III, MHA, PW-IT
Chief Missions Officer and Chief Information Officer
Dr. Rasone Jones
Chair of Dentistry
Dr. Jesse Malott
Chair of Behavioral Health
Dr. Kristina Murphy
Chair of Pharmacy
TN AHEC Scholars Program
The TN AHEC Scholars Program is part of a national initiative that aims to prepare Tennessee's future health care workforce to become leaders in the transforming health care delivery system.
This program focuses on developing a culturally, competent healthcare workforce, with emphasis on training rural and underrepresented, minority and educationally disadvantaged students for practice in rural and/or underserved communities.
The TN AHEC Scholars Program seeks to develop, prepare, and sustain a culturally competent health care workforce that is prepared to deliver high quality care in a transforming heath care delivery system, with emphasis on training rural and urban underrepresented minority, and educationally disadvantaged students for practice in rural and/or underserved areas.
The curriculum includes a defined set of clinical, didactic, and community-based training activities (40 hours didactic and 40 hours clinical training per year).
It is designed to promote knowledge and skill in providing culturally competent care and health equity through didactic and experiential learning.
Training experiences will be team-based and include a formal, didactic component that addresses eight core topic areas:
Interprofessional Education | Behavioral Health Integration
Social Determinants of Health | Cultural Competency
Practice Transformation | Current and Emerging Health Issues
Virtual Learning and Telehealth
Connecting Communities and Supporting | Health Professionals
Contact Us:
McCaa Russum, MS, MHA
Area Health Education Center and Family Medical Residency Manager
The local COVID-19 Task Force is developing a comprehensive coronavirus testing strategy to widely expand testing to more under-served areas and vulnerable populations of Shelby County.
Based on three different system platforms, Sweeney said his lab now has the capability to do 2,000 COVID-19 tests a day. The testing takes three to six hours to process, depending on the platform used.
Christ Community Health Services will open an appointment-only COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in the parking lot of its location at 3360 Third St. on Saturday, March 21, from 8:30 am to 11:30 am.
Christ Community Health Services will open an appointment-only COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in the parking lot of the Christ Community Third Street location Saturday, March 21, 2020 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am.
Mid-southerners are on high alert and looking for any sign of the novel coronavirus. The first case in West Tennessee was announced Monday in Shelby County just in time for the Spring allergy season.
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Today, Congressman David Kustoff (TN-08), announced $650,000 in funding from the New Access Point grant for the application of Christ Community Health Services Inc. in Jackson, TN.
Christ Community Health Services has received a New Access Point grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care to extend health care services to East Jackson, Tennessee.
The Faith Health Center in Jackson, a nonprofit clinic serving hundreds of low-income and uninsured individuals, almost closed its doors last year as funding dried up. But Wednesday brought good news.
With a new grant in hand, Memphis-based nonprofit Christ Community Health Services plans to open a health care center in Jackson, Tennessee, in an area that would have lost a key medical resource.
The role dental health plays in a patient's overall health traditionally has been overlooked by many in the healthcare field, but this situation has begun to change with the success of collaborations between primary care physician
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