Hello Scholars,
And Happy New Year!  I look forward to engaging with you all this winter and spring!

Best wishes,
Kate            

NH AHEC Health Service Scholars Opportunities

Live Virtual Sessions

These events are open to all and can be “counted” toward NH AHEC HS Scholar activity hours.

DHMC Medicine Grand Rounds 2022—Unpacking Systemic Injustices in Medicine: A Model for Change

Friday, January 7, 2022 (8:00–9:00 am)
Location: Livestreamed from  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, at https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/health-care-professionals/medicine-grand-rounds

Presenter:
Chiquita Collins, MD

DHMC Pediatric Grand Rounds 2022—Covid 19: Impact, Equity and Implications: Case Study of the City of Chelsea

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 (8:00–9:00 am)
Location: Livestreamed from  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, at
https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/health-care-professionals/pediatric-grand-rounds

Presenter:
Eileen O’Keefe, MD, MPH

Radical Compassion: Improving Care for People Who Use Drugs

Thursday, January 13, 2022 (1:00–2:30 pm)
Location: Zoom (Register here)

This session will explore putting compassion into action through Harm Reduction strategies, beyond Narcan and syringe programs. Specifically, we will explore a Conversational Harm Reduction framework that works with and supports people on their journey to improved health and wellness. It is a method that can be applied by everyone– professionals, families, friends or strangers. Come prepared to explore your own beliefs around harm reduction and to understand how practicing Radical Compassion can improve the experience for those who use drugs and those who love and care for them.

Presenters:
Tanya Lord is the Director of Patient and Family Engagement at the Foundation for Healthy Communities in Concord, NH. Tanya works with all NH hospitals as they partner with patient and families to improve care.

Ryan Fowler, a native of New Hampshire, is a person in sustained recovery and a Certified Recovery Support Worker. He is a former injection drug user and credits being alive and his clean bill of health to harm reduction and evidence-based treatment. After working in addiction treatment and recovery for several years, Ryan began focusing on harm reduction, public health strategies, and overdose prevention efforts. Using both his negative lived experience and positive professional experience, he has grown in effectiveness and is passionate about helping other people who use drugs to stay alive and find recovery.

Participation Tracking: What, How, Why?

NH AHEC HS Scholars is funded by HRSA, the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  HRSA is the primary federal agency for improving health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable.  This means, of course, that with the funding comes the need to report on your activities.  We aim to make this easy.  Here’s how it works:

1. Apply to the NH AHEC Scholars program here.  Give us a few sentences that describe your interest in doing so.  Answer a few questions.  Approx time needed: 5 min.
2. Once we review and accept your application, we will email you a baseline survey to gather information about you as you begin the program.  Approx time needed: 7-10 min.
3. You check out our website, with recorded sessions and other didactic resources.
4. We will email you regular newsletters about upcoming opportunities that we organize or that we think are of interest and relevant.   
5. Attended a session organized or advertised by the AHEC?  Great!  We want to know.  There are two ways to report it:
   • Go to the link of the event on our calendar, and in the description of the event, click on the Activity Log.  Give us a brief response to our questions.  Approx eval time needed: 5 min.                 
     
     -OR-
   • Keep track of it on your own, and report your attendance in the December or June Participation Tracker Survey, which will be emailed to you.
   • If you report some activities via the Activity Log and some via the Participation Tracker Survey, that’s good too!
6. Attended a non-AHEC session pertaining to one of the following topics?  Also great!  Report it via the Activity Log, as well as the emailed Participation Tracker Survey, as above.
   • Rural health care
   • Care for medically underserved populations, including those in urban areas
   • Primary care
   • Behavioral health integration into primary care
   • Telehealth
   • Substance use disorders and treatment
   • Social determinants of health
   • COVID-19
   • Addressing health disparities and inequities in NH
   • Interprofessional education and health care delivery
   • Practice transformation
7. Did you do community volunteering?  You rock. Seriously. Tell us via the Activity Log or the Participation Tracker Survey—no matter what the activity.  Let us decide if we will be able to report it for AHEC purposes.
8. Tell us about your clinical work, including volunteering, shadowing, and interning, even that which is required by your academic program.  Report it via the Activity Log or the Participation Tracker Survey.

Questions?  Let me know!

Scholars’ Bios

Add your bio to our Scholars’ page! Please forward a photo (png, jpeg fine; as high a resolution as possible) and a brief introduction to yourself (150–250 words). You are welcome to re-use something you’ve already used elsewhere!