Clinical, Continuing, and Community Education

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SWAHEC provides customized training health care experiences in underserved and rural areas. Assistance we can provide include:

Locate and coordinate reliable housing for most rotations
Locate qualified clinical education preceptors to meet student needs
Customize elective rotations specific to needs of students
Specialized summer clinical experience customized to student schedules, interest and needs
Early clinical summer experiences for student as requested
Opportunities to attend local and AHEC sponsored workshops, conferences and seminars
Conference management
Information and referral as well as recruiting scholars for the Geriatric Scholars program
Geriatric Education in partnership with the University of Oklahoma's Geriatric Education Center.
Maintain a library of Geriatric related education which is available for loan.
Access to health resource materials such as DVD's, brochures and journals
For those who require CME, opportunities for loan of DVD's which will provide continuing education credit for pharmacy, nursing, social work and physicians
Other services as requested

The following clinical education support is offered through SWAHEC:

Maintain active association of community organizations to better assess the needs and requests for education on current topics of benefit to the community and area
Serve as a pulse for the most current health care information and act as a conduit for that information to the community and area
Locate guest speakers for health-related topics
Create and sustain community interest groups in new and innovative program and special interest programming in southwest Oklahoma
Conference management
Information and referral

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