This site contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats. They are being developed to study the value of these formats in providing health information for diverse populations in a variety of settings.
copy deeplink Texas Diabetes Council - Diabetes Toolkit for Providers
Texas Diabetes Council - Diabetes Toolkit for ProvidersThe Texas Diabetes Council offers the Diabetes Tool Kit—a teaching aid for health care professionals who work with people who have diabetes. The Tool Kit includes patient education handouts in English and Spanish, which can be reproduced. The handouts address managing sick days, monitoring diabetes in pregnancy, developing an exercise program, and other important topics.
Health Information Translations is a collaborative initiative to improve health education for limited English proficiency patients.
Provides scholarships to full-time, financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds, enrolled in health professions and nursing programs.
NHSC grants matching funds directly to States to operate their own loan repayment programs. Primary care health professionals who are providing full-time clinical services in a public or non-profit facility located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area are eligible for this program.
copy deeplink American Academy of Family Physicians - Family Practice Management Toolbox
American Academy of Family Physicians - Family Practice Management ToolboxThe FPM Toolbox offers 150+ tools that you can use to improve your practice. Many of our tools are available to download as PDFs, MS Word or MS Excel files – all free of charge. To browse the Toolbox, simply click on a category name for a list of the tools offered on that topic.
Provides health professions students and residents with opportunities to work on interdisciplinary health care teams. Currently, 21 states and U.S. territories offer SEARCH programs, extending a unique, hands-on, primary care training experience working with people in underserved rural and urban areas.
Agenda includes expanding access to quality health care, increasing opportunities in medical education, cultural competence, and research for Latinos. Another focus is policy development and education efforts focused on eliminating health disparities faced by Latinos.
This listserve, run by the National Center for Farmworker Health, is designed to facilitate, encourage and promote the exchange of migrant health research
As the nation's action, advocacy, and research forum for Hispanic health and well being, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health informs and mobilizes consumers, supports health and human service providers in the delivery of quality care, improves the science base for accurate decision making by promoting better and more inclusive research, promotes appropriate use of technology, insures accountability and advocates on behalf of Hispanics, and promotes philanthropy.
copy deeplink NACHC: The National Association of Community Health Centers
NACHC: The National Association of Community Health CentersOnline Job Bank. You may contact them at: 7200 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 210, Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone: 301-347-0400, Fax: 301-347-0459
copy deeplink AMSA:The American Medical Student Association-Career development
AMSA:The American Medical Student Association-Career developmentis a student-governed, national organization representing the concerns of physicians-in-training.
Is a national job bank for rural health care providers. It is free to list an opening.
Links
copy deeplink The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)Sponsors an internet-based job bank at www.midwifejobs.com, for which they charge $250 for a 4-week listing. ACNM also has a description of Federally Qualified Health Centers in relation to the midwifery profession.