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Omaha Area Health Education Center (AHEC)

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Omaha Area Health Education Center

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The Nebraska Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program 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.

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.

Check out our newsletters below for any recent updates and events.

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


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Newsletters

Check out our past Omaha AHEC newsletters below:

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Issue 001 January - March 2020
Issue 002 April - June 2020
Issue 003 July - September 2020
Issue 004 October - December 2020
Issue 005 January - March 2021
Issue 006 April - June 2021
Issue 007 July - September 2021
Issue 008 October - December 2021
Issue 009 January - March 2022
Issue 010 April - June 2022
Issue 011 July - September 2022


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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!

Recent Omaha AHEC events:

  • 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)

UNO's Pre-Health Professionals Club

The Omaha AHEC is now collaborating 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, and promoting academic excellence.

Learn more about UNO's Pre-Health Professionals Club


Opportunities

»Volunteer with the MUNA Box Project

The MUNA Box Project is a student-led organization that works closely with refugee and immigrant institutions, religious institutions, and community centers in the Omaha and Lincoln areas to provide nutritional and hygiene support to those in need.

MUNA Box Project is currently looking for more volunteers to help with product collection, donation unloading and packaging, and care package distribution. If you are interested in learning more about how to become a volunteer or donate, please reach to munaboxproject@gmail.com or fill out our volunteer interest form.

»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!


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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