About Us
Kentucky Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) are a collaborative effort of the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, the University of Kentucky Medical Center and eight regional centers.
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About AHEC Centers
The AHEC centers work to improve the recruitment, distribution and retention of health care professionals in medically underserved areas throughout Kentucky. Each regional AHEC center serves a specific geographic area of the state and is responsible for the counties in its area.
What does the AHEC Program do?
AHEC connects the academic health education programs at the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky, as well as a wide variety of other educational institutions and health systems, with medically underserved communities throughout the Commonwealth. This unique university–community partnership brings together educators, community practitioners, health institutions and agencies, along with health professions students to address Kentucky's long-standing health care access challenges.
AHEC Program Goals
The goals of the Kentucky AHEC program are to improve the distribution, quality, utilization and efficiency of health care personnel. Each year, approximately 4,470 students from medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health, public health, pharmacy and social work complete clinical learning experiences in the Kentucky AHEC program. In addition, AHEC programming touches more than 35,000 learners across the educational spectrum statewide annually.