Colorado Area Health Education Center

University of Colorado Denver



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Health Professions Continuing Education

AHECs provide accredited, high quality continuing education offerings and professional support to meeting the needs of health professionals, especially those practicing in underserved areas. These programs are designed to enhance clinical skills and help maintain professional certifications. Programs also focus on recruitment, placement and retention activities to address community and state health care workforce needs. In fiscal year 2005-2006:

Over 7,000 health professionals received continuing education through the efforts of the AHEC programs

36% worked in underserved sites
20% were physicians
12 % were nurses

Video Conferencing Capabilities

AHEC video conferencing was founded in 1997
Provides local on-site continuing education and community education programs and services
240 students have received graduate health professional degrees
Collaborates with eight schools of higher education
Over 4,000 rural health providers trained in bioterrorism

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Professional Attendance of AHEC CE Programs
2006-2007

Health Profession	Number of Participants
Advanced Practice Nurse
Allied Health	0
Community Health Worker	0
Dentistry	0
Medicine	62
Mental Health Professional	108
Nursing	637
Pharmacy	18
Physical Therapy	50
Physician Assistant	0
Public Health Nursing	0
Unspecified	296

Grand Total