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SOWEGA-AHEC at a Glance
THE GOAL of the Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center is to increase access to primary care services in rural underserved areas in Southwest Georgia through the recruitment, training, and retention of primary care health professionals.
The AHEC is an educational program for the health professions with specific objectives to:
- Recruit students from underserved, remote communities into medicine, nursing, allied health, and other health professions.
- Train students in health care professions in community-based sites and expose them to the needs, challenges, and career opportunities in medically underserved areas.
- Increase the availability of continuing education programs, library and information resources, and other means of assisting isolated health care practitioners to stay current in their respective fields.
- Identify the most cost effective strategies to address health profession needs. This includes analysis of work force data, focused utilization of existing resources, and the development of working partnerships and collaborations.
Want to know more?
Our 38-county service area in southwest Georgia
Health Matters Newsletter-Spring 2006 [PDF
format, 395 KB]
Georgia Statewide AHEC Network Program
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