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Area Health Education Centers Program

The Arkansas Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program was founded in 1973, through combined efforts of the Governor, the State Legislature, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), as the primary educational outreach effort of UAMS and the principal means of decentralizing medical and other health professions education throughout the state.

In addition to the Arkansas Health Career Guide, the AHEC Program also sponsors summer programs for high school students who are interested in learning about health careers at the seven AHEC centers in El Dorado, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Helena, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, and Texarkana and in community hospitals around the state.  These programs include the 2-week M*A*S*H program for high school students and CHAMPS, a 1-week program for junior high students.  Medical student programs sponsored by AHEC include FATE (Fighting AIDS through Education) and RMSLA (Rural Medical Student Leadership Association) along with summer preceptorships, the junior family medicine clerkship, and required and elective rotations for senior medical students.  The AHEC’s also serve as a training site for nursing, pharmacy and allied health profession students.

To learn more about a particular health career or the scope of programs available through the AHEC’s, contact an AHEC near your home:

            AHEC Fort Smith:  Lawrence Price, MD, Director; 479/785-2431

            AHEC Pine Bluff:  H. Marks Attwood, MD, Director; 870/541-7611

            AHEC Northeast (Jonesboro):  Tom Frank, PharmD, Director; 870/972-9603

            AHEC Northwest (Fayetteville/Springdale):  Robert Gullett, MD,

                        Director; 479/521-8269

            AHEC South Arkansas (El Dorado):  Mel Fratzke, PED, Director; 870/862-2489

            AHEC Southwest (Texarkana):  William McIntyre, PharmD, Director;

                        870/779-6000

            Delta AHEC (Helena):  Becky Hall, EdD, Director; 870/572-2727

Please use the navigation bar to the left to explore the Arkansas Health Career Guide.

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