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Omaha Area Health Education Center (AHEC)

Established in 2019 and housed in the University of Nebraska at Omaha Health Careers Resource Center, the Omaha AHEC—Nebraska’s only urban AHEC—works with folks at every stage of training in healthcare professions, from high school, college, and professional students to professionals currently working in healthcare.

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The Omaha Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is housed at UNO and serves Douglas and Sarpy County. Omaha AHEC is part of the Nebraska AHEC Program, which works statewide through regional centers to connect students to health careers, health professionals to communities, and communities to better health. AHECs are created to aid health career training programs and communities in recruiting and training health care professionals to serve in rural and underserved areas, in order to meet the state’s health and health workforce needs.

»Interested in learning more about the Omaha AHEC? Click here to fill out our interest form.


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Pre-Health Symposium

The Pre-Health Symposium, hosted by UNO's Health Careers Resource Center in partnership with Omaha AHEC, is the premier event for high school and college students to engage with healthcare, human services, and STEM based careers and programs.

Learn about PHS 2025 here


UNO's Pre-Health Professionals Club

The Omaha AHEC collaborates with UNO's Pre-Health Professionals Club. This is a great opportunity for UNO Pre-Health students interested in a career in healthcare. The purpose of the UNO Pre-Health Professionals Club aims to help students successfully explore and enter the health care workforce. The club's goals include providing opportunities for career exploration, creating a sense of community among members, facilitating professional development, promoting academic excellence, and engaging with the community.

Learn more about UNO's Pre-Health Professionals Club


Opportunities

»Pre-Health Shadowing Guide

Omaha AHEC knows that finding health-related job shadowing opportunities can be difficult so we curated a short guide called “Job Shadowing 101” to help. Within this handbook, we outline common rules and expectations one should foresee, a list of locations that offer programs and opportunities to the general public, and a list of helpful tips to help make the most out of your shadowing experiences. We hope that this resource can help job showing feel less daunting and make the process easier for those in need! Take a look below!

UPDATED GUIDE COMING SOON!

»AHEC Scholars Program

The Nebraska AHEC Scholars Program is part of a national initiative that prepares health profession students who want to serve in rural or urban underserved areas. Learn more...

Applications for the 2024-2026 cohort are now open! Apply here by September 30th, 2024.


Recent Omaha AHEC Events

The Omaha AHEC participates in, co-hosts, and coordinates many events! Make sure you're checking this page and our social media frequently for upcoming events, forums, and panels!

  • Motivational Interviewing 101: Skills to Get Started (Co-hosted with the Grace Abbott Training and Supervision Academy) July 15, 2025 from 11:30AM-1:30PM
  • Expanding Representation: A day in the life of a medical student (Co-hosted with the Anti-Racism Student Advisory Council at Creighton University School of Medicine)
  • UNO Pre-Health Careers Forum: How to be a successful medical student (Co-hosted with UNO's Health Careers Resource Center and UNO's Pre-Health Professionals Club)
  • Covid-19 Community Omaha AHEC & AHA Conversation Webinar (Co-hosted with the American Heart Association)


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Check out our past Omaha AHEC newsletters below:

  • Issue 1 2020
  • Issue 2 2020
  • Issue 3 2020
  • Issue 4 2020
  • Issue 5 2021
  • Issue 6 2021
  • Issue 7 2021
  • Issue 8 2021
  • Issue 9 2022
  • Issue 10 2022
  • Issue 11 2022
  • Issue 12 2022
  • Issue 13 2023
  • Issue 14 2023
  • Issue 15 2023
  • Issue 16 2024
  • Issue 17 2024
  • Issue 18 2025
  • Issue 19 2025

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This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U77HP21499. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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Pre-Health Symposium April 25, 2025

The region's premier event for high school and college students to engage with healthcare, human services, and STEM based careers and programs. Registration open for organizations to host a table.

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