Area Health Education Center (AHEC) of Southwest Oregon is an organization that covers 17,000 miles in the southwest part of Oregon and serves Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson and Josephine counties. AHEC's goal is to focus its resources on the healthcare needs of rural and underserved populations; organize and coordinate training opportunities for rural healthcare providers to enable clinicians to keep abreast of emerging issues; place healthcare students in rural clinical rotation to motivate tomorrow's providers to start practices in rural Oregon; encourage youth to pursue a career in healthcare; collaborate with rural communities in securing grants to help respond to the healthcare needs of the region. More information about our organization can be obtained from www.HealthyOregon.com.
Who I'd like to meet: AHEC-SW ORegon presents Oregon's First BDLS/ADLS Training (Basic Life Support & Advanced Life Support) plus a Train the Trainer Module held July 2009 in Eugene, Oregon
WHO PARTICIPATED: EMS, HAZMAT, Public
Health, Law Enforcement, Healthcare
Providers (First Receivers), and
Physicians.
WHEN: July 14-17, 2009
WHERE: Eugene Fire and EMS Training Center in
Eugene
WHO WE'D LIKE TO MEET!
Anyone that is currently in or is interested in going into a health career.
Attention all prospective MedStars counselors: the previously link to the counselor application did not give you the whole document (sorry). The counseolor application consists of a signed position description AND an application. You can download both here: http://www. healthyoregon. com/highSchool/medStarsHome. php
