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HEALTH PROFESSIONS STUDENTS SERVICES Community Based Education(CBE) in 2004-2005 CBE Interactive Website  community faculty, and  information, student rotation request Health Professions Students in Communities Medical Student Courses Physician Assistant Programs Nurse Practitioner Programs Other Related Sites Service Learning in Health Professions Education Training Module ACS FAMU-4020 Public Health Interdisciplinary ACS Syllabus (pdf file) East Texas AHEC establish, maintain, and advocate community-based training for health professions students, with an emphasis on primary care and underserved populations.  Our efforts encourage the health professions student to return to the community setting to practice once they graduate.   Community-Based Education From 2004 to 2005, we facilitated training in community settings for 923 health professions students for 142,545 hours of training, including: 614 medical students 72 residents 162 physician assistant students 23 nursing students 47 allied health students 5 other We coordinated 624 community-based education (CBE) sites throughout East Texas, supported 1014 community faculty, coordinated experiences for students from 16 different disciplines and 21 campus partners.

Listed below is a sampling of health professions courses/programs which included community-based experiences/rotations in the East Texas AHEC service area. If you are interested in a rotation in one of our service areas, please contact your selected regional centers for information about available experiences (For more information, click on 'Find Your AHEC Center' at the bottom of the page,  call the East Texas Program Office at 409/772-7884, or go to the CBE interactive website ).                                               Top of Page

The University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston

• Office of Regional Medical Education – provides leadership among community and university-based regional medical educators to enhance the skills and resources needed to meet the School of Medicine’s mission of training competent, caring physicians. 

• Practice of Medicine (POM1)  – integrated required course for 1st year medical students.  Course includes community rotations in physicians offices as well as multigenerational family home visits.  Students are also encouraged to volunteer at St. Vincent's House, a twice-weekly opportunity for students to work in a clinic situation utilizing clinical skills learned on campus.

• Family Medicine Clerkship - required 1-month community rotation for 3rd-year students

• Pediatric Clerkship  – required 1-month rotation for 3^rd-year students where students complete 3 of the 4 weeks in a community setting.

• Ambulatory Community Selective   – required 1-month community rotation for 4^th-year medical students.  Students select the specialty of their choice.

  • Public Health / Interdisciplinary Ambulatory Community Selective – 4-week selective that provides an opportunity for the 4th-year medical student to learn abut the profession and practice of medicine in a community setting with special opportunities to explore interdisciplinary team practice and public health.

Baylor College of Medicine

• Patient, Physician and Society - required rotations throughout 1st year
• Family Medicine Clerkship - required 1-month community rotation for 3rd-year students

The University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth

• Rural Family Medicine Track - This is a defined curricular "pathway" that provides medical students with community-based experiences in rural medicine to prepare them for practice in a rural community. Track components occurring over four years include preceptorships, clinical clerkship rotations, community health service activities and a seminar on rural health topics. For further information contact:

Barbara D. Adams, MSA
Assistant Director
Rural Family Medicine Track
University of North Texas Health Science Center
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817)735-0186
badams@hsc.unt.edu

The University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston

• Introduction to Clinical Medicine - required one term rotations 1st year
• Family Medicine Clerkship required 1-month community rotation for 3rd-year students

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Community rotations throughout the senior year
UTMB
Baylor College of Medicine
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

Community rotations throughout the curriculum
The University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston
The University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston
The University of Texas - Tyler

Baylor University School of Nursing
University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
East Texas Geriatric Education Center (ETGEC) Meeting the geriatric educational needs of health professionals and students throughout East Texas.