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"RPAP Key to Recruiting Small-Town Docs"

MN AHEC is proud to work with third-year medical students from the University of Minnesota who participate in the Rural Physicians Associate Program (RPAP). There are RPAP students in all four of our established rural AHEC regions.

The program is in its 38th year and has over 1,200 alumni, 57% of which chose to practice in rural areas. RPAP is a unique opportunity in clinical training wherein third-year medical students live and train for nine months in non-metropolitan communities under the supervision of preceptors who are family physicians. These preceptors mentor students in the professional and personal aspects of being a physician.

RPAP students learn clinical medicine, procedures, community health, and the business of medicine.

The program has been highlighted in the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center News Capsules. You can also check out the program's newsletter, The Rural Physician, and more information can be found on the program's website.

Posted by hans1247 at April 8, 2009, 8:28 PM | Permalink

Career fair for women held at UMC

Career fair for women held at UMC
Coverage from a March 3, 2008 issue of the Crookston Daily Times

Look here for more information on this event or please contact Joan Porraz, Executive Director of Northwest MN AHEC.

Posted by hans1247 at March 3, 2008, 2:36 PM | Permalink

Senator Klobuchar visits to Crookston

U.S. Senator Klobuchar to Discuss Rural Health Care Issues on Jan. 15 at U of M, Crookston

Posted January 11, 2008 in the UMN Crookston News

For more information on this event and others in Northwest MN AHEC, please contact Joan Porraz, Executive Director of Northwest MN AHEC.

Excerpt:
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar will kick off her northwestern Minnesota 2008 Main Street Tour at the University of Minnesota, Crookston, on Tuesday, January 15. Klobuchar will hold a discussion on rural health care from 7:40 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. in Bede Ballroom A in the Student Center on campus. The Minnesota Rural Health Association will host the event. Other participants include the Northwest Area Health Education Center, RiverView Health and the University of Minnesota, Crookston.

Posted by hans1247 at January 11, 2008, 3:00 PM | Permalink

Minnesota Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions cooperative agreement # 1U76-HP00599-01 funded through Title VII of the Public Health Service Act.