General News
Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program Seeking Nurse Practitioners
Do you know someone who is a Nurse Practitioner (NP)? The Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) is reserving up to half of all funding for NPs and we need your help to get the word out. NELRP offers NPs an opportunity to repay up to 85 percent of their outstanding qualifying educational loans [...]
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2012 NHSC Loan Repayment Application Cycle Now Open
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) has now opened its 2012 application cycle! The application cycle will be open until May 2012, however providers are strongly encouraged to apply early. The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program (LRP ) offers primary health care providers loan repayment assistance in exchange [...]
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Upstate AHEC Offers Specialized Training for Nurses Treating Assault Victims
During 2010 in South Carolina, 1,466 victims of rape reported their assault to law enforcement throughout our state. This number reflects an average of more than 4 sexual assaults each day, ranking South Carolina the ninth highest state per-capita for sexual assault in the U.S., FBI statistics show. Rape crisis centers across the state served [...]
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ASL Practitioners Take Their AHEC Training to the Workplace
Eighteen participants attended the Medical Classifiers Level 1 Sign Language Interpreter Workshop on Oct. 28 – 30, 2011, at Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, SC, a course provided by Upstate AHEC. Participants were provided an opportunity to learn and practice their work as medical classifiers in American Sign Language (ASL). The course emphasized complex medical [...]
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Ninth Annual Research Symposium Held in Greenville Sept. 30, 2011
Upstate AHEC in collaboration with AnMed Health, the Nursing Research Council of the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Sigma Theta Tau Gamma Mu Chapter Clemson University, and Mu Rho Chapter University of South Carolina Upstate sponsored the Ninth Annual Research Symposium, Translating Research Into Practice. More than 100 participants who attended the Sept. 30 [...]
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South Carolina Student Experiences And Rotations in Community Health
The South Carolina Student Experiences And Rotations in Community Health (SEARCH) Program offers health professional students the opportunity to train in interdisciplinary team environments and acquire the necessary skills to provide culturally responsive care to medically underserved populations in rural and urban areas of the state. The overall goal of the program is to enhance [...]
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Upstate Regional Coalition
The Upstate Regional Coalition is a group of professionals who have joined in an effort to increase the diversity of the S.C. Health Care Workforce. The Upstate Coalition is one of four coalitions throughout South Carolina enabled by funding from a Duke Endowment grant to SC AHEC. This three-year grant includes several statewide initiatives such [...]
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