This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH), offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care. You may access free online courses accredited for continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help you and your organization promote respectful, understandable, and effective care to your increasingly diverse patients.
Provides scholarships to full-time, financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds, enrolled in health professions and nursing programs.
This site contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats. They are being developed to study the value of these formats in providing health information for diverse populations in a variety of settings.
NHSC grants matching funds directly to States to operate their own loan repayment programs. Primary care health professionals who are providing full-time clinical services in a public or non-profit facility located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area are eligible for this program.
Provides health professions students and residents with opportunities to work on interdisciplinary health care teams. Currently, 21 states and U.S. territories offer SEARCH programs, extending a unique, hands-on, primary care training experience working with people in underserved rural and urban areas.
Agenda includes expanding access to quality health care, increasing opportunities in medical education, cultural competence, and research for Latinos. Another focus is policy development and education efforts focused on eliminating health disparities faced by Latinos.
Online Job Bank. Family physicians remain in high demand and have a variety of practice settings available to them. To view your options and current openings
PedJobs is the official employment resource of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is free to the job seeker.
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Provides information on communities that are currently recruiting primary care clinicians and is not exclusive to NHSC Scholars and those interested in the NHSC Loan Repayment Program.
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Operates an online job bank
is a student-governed, national organization representing the concerns of physicians-in-training.
Sponsors an internet-based job bank at www.midwifejobs.com, for which they charge $250 for a 4-week listing. ACNM also has a description of Federally Qualified Health Centers in relation to the midwifery profession.
Online Job Bank. You may contact them at: 7200 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 210, Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone: 301-347-0400, Fax: 301-347-0459
The American Academy of Physician Assistants uses the same database, as do other professional organizations,
An online Job Bank for family physicians.
If you are interested in a clinical job posting with a community health center in AK, ID, OR or WA, please visit our clinical job listing to search for positions and upload your information.
AHECs (Area Health Education Centers) and HETCs (Health Education Training Centers) have regional offices which provide community placements, service learning opportunities and clinical experiences for medical, dental, physician assistant, nursing, pharmacy and allied health students in rural and urban underserved communities. Programs also focus on recruitment, placement, and retention activities to address community and state health care workforce needs.
FHSI's commitment to producing relevant, meaningful, and effective resources is a key component of each publication. As such, FHSI incorporates external review panels, focus groups, or peer-to-peer strategies when developing any of its publications.
Has incredible links to education scholarships for minorities. Phone: 1-800-234-8848
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A listing of farmworker organizations and agencies that are seeking volunteers and interns to support their work.
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Find answers to common questions about clinical trials.
On this web page you could find education on Clinical Trials such as: Background, Clinical Trial Phases, Safety, Pre-enrollment Information, Drugs and Placebo, and Your Doctor and the Clinical Trial.
The Mayo Clinic provides useful and up-to-date information and tools regarding clinical trials.
Information about what clinical trials are and the purpose of conducting them.
A one-stop shop created by the University of Maryland School of Nursing for nurses interested in environmental health.
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) includes leaders of state and territorial health agencies. ASTHO helps influence sound national health policy and implement programs and policies to promote health.
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Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) represents more than 20,000 physicians, nurses and health care professionals devoted to nuclear disarmament, violence prevention and environmental health. Hosts envirohealth action which offers environmental health educational and advocacy resources for the health community.
American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) is a professional organization for board-certified medical toxicologists, who play a major role in poison control centers, inpatient and outpatients medical care facilities, medical schools, private industry and government agencies.
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