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E-mail: gomeza6@uthscsa.edu | Phone: 210-562-5568. Address: 7411 John Smith Road, Suite 1050, San Antonio, Texas 78229. Ariel Gomez, MPH, CHES, is the recently appointed lead of the South Central Area Health Education Center (AHEC) but has been with the center since 2014. She has a decade of experience connecting with communities and other ...
3 days ago · The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, also called UT Health San Antonio, is a leading academic health center with a mission to make lives better through excellence in advanced academics, life-saving research and comprehensive clinical care including health, dental and cancer services.
- Why Interprofessional Education Is Important
- Professionalism and Institutional Culture
- Military Health System Deserves It
- Improved Quality of Care
- Increased Allied Health Demand
- Research Productivity
- Physician Shortages and Burnout
Healthcare delivered via interprofessional healthcare teams has been found to improve patient satisfaction, enhance collaborative behaviors, reduce clinical error rates, and streamline management of care delivery.1 Unfortunately, the traditional stove-piped medical education process has failed to provide adequate opportunities to expose new residen...
Initiated at the beginning of each academic year during integrated orientation, SAUSHEC institutional leadership communicates our diverse medical and specialty culture preparing and optimizing the training environment that recognizes the additive benefit of all members of the team. This impetus is routinely reinforced throughout the academic year w...
Fully qualified allied health providers are caring for more diverse, complicated, and higher-acuity patients than ever before while supporting the DoD’s medical mission and worldwide military contingencies. Military GAHE programs prepare trainees to be leaders of ready medics with the core knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) needed to perform i...
The GAHE specialties discussed herein comprise nearly 25% of the total military healthcare workforce and provide the fundamental care critical to the success of the MHS.7 Allied health practitioners are highly trained, safe, and autonomous providers with professional qualifications essential for admission to a relevant professional body and whose p...
Not only do these professionals contribute to improving clinical outcomes but also the demand for these types of specialties is increasing. As an example, Behavioral Health specialists and subspecialties continue to experience exponential pressure for resources in both the civilian and military sectors. Demand for psychologists and social workers i...
Military medical research continues to make significant impacts across the medical world. GAHE programs contribute by conducting original relevant research advancing the ever-growing body of medical literature and the practice of medicine. Many GAHE research endeavors are collaborative with physicians and other disciplines. During the 2019-2020 and...
Physician burnout is a well-known concern and the continue challenges resident physicians encounter with the ACGME 80 hour work week policy.11 As a solution, residents reported positive effects of Advanced Practice Practitioners such as reduced resident workload, teaching protocols, enhanced patient care and communication, and enriched training.12 ...
The Florida Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Network is an extensive, statewide system for health professional education and support founded upon 10 regional Area Health Education Centers. Each center is supported by an AHEC program at one of the state’s medical schools.
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SAUSHEC hosts the training of over 700 U.S. military officers in 34 Graduate Medical Education and 22 Graduate Allied Health Education specialty programs. Its graduates are prepared to lead in serving the medical needs of the U.S. military across the globe. SAUSHEC falls under the command structure of the Defense Health Agency’s San Antonio ...
