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Links to Care for the Underserved
MCN Links to Care for the Underserved provides information on the resources available locally and nationally, for those in need of assistance for various health and social service issues, with additional attention to migrant health specific resources.
AMSA:The American Medical Student Association-Career development
is a student-governed, national organization representing the concerns of physicians-in-training.
Texas DSHS: Free Diabetes Education Materials
AMSA: The American Medical Student Association- Training Opportunities
A is a student-governed, national organization representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. Educational and experiential training opportunities in public health
AHECs/HETCs
AHECs (Area Health Education Centers) and HETCs (Health Education Training Centers) have regional offices which provide community placements, service learning opportunities and clinical experiences for medical, dental, physician assistant, nursing, pharmacy and allied health students in rural and urban underserved communities. Programs also focus on recruitment, placement, and retention activities to address community and state health care workforce needs.
National Health Service Corps Educational Program
For Clinical and Community Issues in Primary Care. Through experiential learning, problem-solving and interactive exercises, the 15 online modules help current and future clinicians begin to understand contemporary practice settings, cross-cultural issues and disease patterns.
Nursing Scholarship Program
Program pays tuition, required fees, other reasonable costs and a monthly stipend. Preference is given to qualified applicants with the greatest financial need who are enrolled full-time in an undergraduate nursing program.
Rural Recruitment & Retention
Is a national job bank for rural health care providers. It is free to list an opening.
Health Careers Network
An online Job Bank for family physicians.
Minimum Standards Algorithms for Diabetes Care, from the Texas Diabetes Council
To assist in the delivery of primary care practice. They have been developed by a panel of experts through an open, peer-reviewed process to assure that they are complete, accurate and consistent with the current state of knowledge on diabetes treatment.
Dentsearch.com
Your dental employment opportunity website. Designed specifically for the dental industry; providing inexpensive job opportunity advertising for dental practices, groups, educational institutions, suppliers and manufacturers.
Diabetes ToolBox
A free downloadable desktop application to track important health information such as daily blood sugar readings without going online.
DiabetesWATCH
An on-line community to help increase diabetes knowledge and help diabetes patients better manage their disease.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
An organization dedicated to finding a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research.
Link
www.jdrf.org
Insulin Pumpers
This site provides information and support for adults and children with diabetes and their families interested in insulin pump therapy.
The Diabetes A1c Initiative, Aim. Believe. Achieve.
A national education campaign to help the diabetes community reach and stay at blood glucose goals.
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)
To champion the cause of health care quality and to accelerate improvement in the value of the health care we deliver.
Link
http://www.icsi.org/
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
A non-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
MCN's Health Network- Track II
Clinics which treat mobile patients with diabetes can now count on a clinical oversight system that can help prevent diabetes-related complications by providing self-management support, education and referral.
