Diliberto R A
Public Health Rep. 1986 Mar-Apr;101(2):187-91.
The Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program is a Federal initiative funded by the Public Health Service. The goal of the program is to improve the distribution and quality of training for health professionals. Funds are awarded to schools of medicine or osteopathy which in turn subcontract with at least two other health professional schools. Each project recipient must establish an AHEC center to plan and coordinate community-based educational experiences for health professions students in designated health shortage areas. The AHEC program fosters interdisciplinary training among health professionals. As part of the basic program thrust, some AHECs have included the social work profession in their program design. The Massachusetts AHEC, through Boston University's School of Social Work, established a health care concentration and interdisciplinary rotation that included students from social work, psychology, nursing, and medicine. Other examples of AHEC-sponsored training are presented from Baltimore, the eastern shore of Virginia, and several centers in Massachusetts. Through the AHEC training mechanism, social work students as well as practitioners in the field have the opportunity to encounter the most current and urgent issues in health care practice.
地区健康教育中心（AHEC）项目是一项由公共卫生服务部资助的联邦倡议。该项目的目标是改善卫生专业人员培训的分布情况和质量。资金被授予医学院或整骨医学院，这些院校再与至少另外两所卫生专业学校签订分包合同。每个项目接受方必须设立一个AHEC中心，为指定的卫生短缺地区的卫生专业学生规划和协调基于社区的教育体验。AHEC项目促进卫生专业人员之间的跨学科培训。作为基本项目重点的一部分，一些AHEC在其项目设计中纳入了社会工作专业。马萨诸塞州AHEC通过波士顿大学社会工作学院，设立了一个医疗保健专业方向和跨学科轮转项目，其中包括来自社会工作、心理学、护理和医学专业的学生。还介绍了来自巴尔的摩、弗吉尼亚州东海岸以及马萨诸塞州几个中心的AHEC赞助培训的其他例子。通过AHEC培训机制，社会工作专业的学生以及该领域的从业者有机会接触到医疗保健实践中最新和最紧迫的问题。
