Welcome to Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center's (AHEC) 20 county region.  Our goal is to help you gain a quality educational experience by providing community-based learning opportunities and clinical experiences within the rural and urban underserved communities of northwest Georgia.  Community-based training will give you a unique opportunity to experience health care in a real world setting and interact one on one with your future patient population in community health centers, county health departments, local practitioner's offices and many other community primary care sites.  Current research has shown that health care professions students who have participated in these experiences have a better understanding of the complex needs of underserved communities.

We are pleased to be able to offer benefits to students training within the 20 counties we serve.  In order to receive any of the benefits listed below you must complete and return the AHEC student support form.

• Student housing located in Rome and Dalton

• Travel assistance. Students who are not receiving housing support are eligible to receive a $50 travel stipend to assist with expenses incurred when traveling to clinical sites located outside of their educational institution's county.

• OVID access. OVID is an online collection of scholarly databases including MEDLINE, CINAHL, and HealthSTAR.  Full text journal articles are available from more than 46 medical journals and 14 nursing journals.

  

WELCOME our Northwest Georgia region! We look forward to working with you!