What is an AHEC?
AHEC stands for Area Health Education Center. The Alaska AHEC is part of a network of AHECs across the country. Most are administered through a School of Medicine. Alaska’s AHEC was the first in the country to be administered through a School of Nursing. The overall mission of an AHEC is to recruit, train and retain a health professions workforce committed to underserved populations. The Alaska AHEC Centers work in three main areas: (a) recruiting Alaskans from disadvantaged backgrounds into health careers (b) coordinating clinical rotations for health profession students in rural areas or with underserved populations and (c) providing CE/CME in underserved areas, toward the retention of those health care workers.
