The Alaska Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program requests your assistance in sharing a brand new and exciting interdisciplinary opportunity with your students. The Rural Immersion Institute of the North (RIIN) program is designed to expose pre-professional health majors to a rural and/or underserved healthcare experience. The program has been in development over the course of the past 3 years and will launch in June, 2016.



Students will have a one-of-a-kind experience traveling to some of the most remote communities in the United States in order to walk in the shoes of healthcare providers in the Last Frontier. Many students sign up for international experiences where they take part in high risk clinical scenarios in an attempt to enhance their resumes and skillsets. The RIIN program provides these same students with access to a safe yet culturally diverse healthcare landscape without leaving the country.



The AHEC program aims to strengthen the healthcare workforce in rural and underserved communities. RIIN provides students with early exposure to rural practice, providing the perfect backdrop of rural healthcare to entice future practice in the neediest communities in our country.

Please feel free to share the attached brochure with your students and colleagues. Eligible RIIN applicants include undergraduate juniors and seniors, gap year students and professionals returning to graduate school including by not limited to the following areas of study:



*                     Medicine

*                     Psychiatry

*                     Dentistry

*                     Pharmacy

*                     Chiropractic

*                     Nurse Practitioner

*                     Physician Assistant

*                     Psychology

*                     Social Work

*                     Speech Language Pathology

*                     Occupational Therapy

*                     Physical Therapy

*                     Public Health

*                     Healthcare Administration

Please feel free to contact Alaska AHEC Program Director, Gloria Burnett for more information.



Gloria Burnett

Director



UAA Alaska Center for Rural Health and Health Workforce - Alaska's AHEC

Mailing: 3211 Providence Drive, BOC3 - Suite 250

Physical: 1901 Bragaw, Suite 250

Anchorage, AK 99508



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