General

Healthcare 411 


Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) health-related audio and video podcasts.


Web Site Resources for NHSC Scholars

NHSC Recruitment Training and Support Center

National Association of Community Health Centers
The national trade association serving and representing the interests of America's community health centers. Read more, or visit their web site America's Health Centers.

HRSA Information Center
Publications and resources on health care services for the underserved.

Public Health Foundation
A Web site that provides a searchable gateway to information about the infrastructure of public health systems that protect the public's health.

The Healthcare Collaborator
A monthly online newsletter offering you the communication strategies you need to build better working relationships with the people you count on most: your colleagues!

National Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network
Offers programs that work with community and academic partners to address the primary health care workforce needs and health promotion and disease prevention information needs of medically underserved communities.

United States Public Health Service
The mission of the Public Health Service (PHS) Commissioned Corps is to provide highly-trained and mobile health professionals who carry out programs to promote the health of the Nation, understand and prevent disease and injury, assure safe and effective drugs and medical devices, deliver health services to Federal beneficiaries, and furnish health expertise in time of war or other national or international emergencies.

Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
Provides information on specific FQHCs in need of CNMs.

The Virtual Health Care Team®
A collection of interdisciplinary cases sponsored by the School of Health Professions and the School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Volunteers in Health Care
Online resource for health professionals and organizations looking to organize or expand volunteer-led medical and dental services for the uninsured in their communities.

American Project Access Network
Project Access systems serve people who are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, yet are not financially able to provide health insurance for themselves and their families.

Council on Graduate Medical Education
Provides an ongoing assessment of physician workforce trends, training issues and financing policies, and recommends appropriate Federal and private sector efforts on these issues.

Directory of Primary Care Associations (PCA)

Directory of Primary Care Offices (PCO)

The U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative
This initiative seeks to provide accessible methods for easily obtaining an accurate family health history and to increase use of the family health history in disease prevention and health promotion.

Cultural Competence

Cross Cultural Health Care Program
Offers cultural competence trainings, interpreter trainings, research projects, community coalition building, and other services in an effort to improve access to culturally and linguistically appropriate health care.

Cultural competency resources from HRSA's Information Center

Diversity Rx
Promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.

Georgetown University Child Development Center
National Center for Cultural Competence

Office of Minority Health
Develops health policies and programs to help improve the health of racial and ethnic populations and eliminate disparities.

The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture
Web-based tool for health professionals interested in providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services to multicultural populations.

Funding Sources

Healthy Vision 2010 Community Awards
Program provides funding for community-based education and health promotion projects that address the vision objectives in Healthy People 2010.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services GrantsNet

State Loan Repayment Page

Mental and Behavioral Health Training & Courses

American Mental Health Services and Education Center
Offers accredited online continuing education courses for mental and behavioral health professionals.

PsyBC Psy Broadcasting Corporation
Offers online continuing education for mental and behavioral health professionals.

Professional Associations

Dental Health

• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
• American Association of Women Dentists
• American College of Dentists
• American Dental Association
• American Dental Education Association
• American Dental Hygienists' Association

Mental and Behavioral Health

• Academy of Clinical Psychology
• American Academy of Clinical Psychiatry
• American Association of Community Psychiatrists
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
• American Counseling Association
• American Psychiatric Association
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. and affiliates
• National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology

Nurse-Midwives

• American College of Nurse-Midwives
• National Association for Childbearing Centers

Nurse Practitioners

• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• American College of Nurse Practitioners
• National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health
• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Inc.

Physicians

• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
• American Medical Association
• American Medical Women's Association
• National Hispanic Medical Association
• National Medical Association

Physician Assistants

• American Academy of Physician Assistants

Rural Health

• National Rural Health Association

Students

• American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• American Dental Education Association
• Student National Medical Association
• American Medical Student Association
• Association of American Medical Colleges: FindAResident
• Student Osteopathic Medical Association
• American Student Dental Association