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Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HP-ET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center for “Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET,” the final installment of our three-webinar series on building HP-ET programs at health centers. This webinar is a one-hour discussion on the challenges, solutions, and benefits of building an HP-ET program at your health center. In this session, Dr. Ethan Kerns provides an overview of the development program created for staff at Salud Family Health in Colorado and highlights the career development this program provides for his dental staff.

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Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HPET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center on for “Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET,” Part Two of our three-webinar series on building HPET programs at health centers.

Hear from NEW Health, a community health center located in rural northeast Washington State, serving rural and frontier communities who, as a result of implementing a strategic workforce initiative, has more qualified applicants than they can hire!

Learn how NEW Health launched their own comprehensive workforce development initiative. Branded as “NEW Health University”, their plan is the culmination of many years of developing creative solutions to rural workforce challenges. NEW Health University serves as the umbrella for all of NEW Health’s workforce initiatives, including strategies for external and internal pipeline development, recruitment, retention, training, and employee growth within the organization.

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Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HP-ET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center for “Health Center Partnerships for Pathway Development,” part of our webinar series on building HP-ET programs at health centers. This one-hour webinar features a discussion with two healthcare provider training institutions on how they partner with health centers to provide medical education opportunities for their students, and recruiting opportunities for the health centers with whom they partner. Dr. April Dobroth, Clinical Director of Frontier Nursing University’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program and Dr. Sharon Obadia, Associate Dean of Clinical Education Services at AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine discuss their specific programs, their partnerships with health centers, and what institutions like theirs look for when engaging in HP-ET partnerships with health centers. Dr. Kiki Nocella, a Director of Healthcare Consulting at Wipfli and specialist in graduate medical education provides opening remarks on creating successful HP-ET partnerships in health centers.

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This webinar was conducted on April 13, 2022, as the third session in the STAR² Center 2021-2022 PCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Series and featured a discussion of Health Professions Education & Training Plans with Nathalia Drew, HRSA PCA Team Lead.

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Click here to access a diagramed definition of a Comprehensive Workforce Plan and how a Health Professions Education and Training Plan (HP-ET) compliments it.