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Texas Diabetes Council - Diabetes Toolkit for Providers
The Texas Diabetes Council offers the Diabetes Tool Kit—a teaching aid for health care professionals who work with people who have diabetes. The Tool Kit includes patient education handouts in English and Spanish, which can be reproduced. The handouts address managing sick days, monitoring diabetes in pregnancy, developing an exercise program, and other important topics.
Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students
Provides scholarships to full-time, financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds, enrolled in health professions and nursing programs.
State Loan Repayment Program
NHSC grants matching funds directly to States to operate their own loan repayment programs. Primary care health professionals who are providing full-time clinical services in a public or non-profit facility located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area are eligible for this program.
SEARCH (A NHSC program)
Provides health professions students and residents with opportunities to work on interdisciplinary health care teams. Currently, 21 states and U.S. territories offer SEARCH programs, extending a unique, hands-on, primary care training experience working with people in underserved rural and urban areas.
National Hispanic Medical Association
Agenda includes expanding access to quality health care, increasing opportunities in medical education, cultural competence, and research for Latinos. Another focus is policy development and education efforts focused on eliminating health disparities faced by Latinos.
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.
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.
Midwives and FQHC's information packet
AMSA:The American Medical Student Association-Career development
is a student-governed, national organization representing the concerns of physicians-in-training.
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.
MCN Monograph Series. Track II: Continuous Diabetes Care for Migrant Workers. Eng/Spn
An epidemic of obesity-related diabetes is sweeping across the United States and has begun its spread to the rest of the world. In 1998, the Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) Diabetes Program launched the Diabetes Track II project to address this issue in the migrant population. Track II provides continuity of care for mobile individuals through transferring medical records and offering remote care coordination. Track II: Continuous Diabetes Care for Migrant Workers is a english/spanish resource.
Files
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- MCN Track II Continuous Diabetes mono ( 500 Kb )
MCN Monograph Series. Diabetes: Addressing a Chronic Disease in a Mobile Population. Eng/Spn
The Migrant Clinicians Network’s (MCN) mission is to promote the health of farmworkers by providing a framework for professional development to clinicians and other healthcare providers. MCN responds to the expressed needs of clinicians in the field who serve farmworker families, the issues voiced by farmworkers themselves as they are interviewed and known by the representative members of MCN, and the strategic initiatives of the federal and public health communities as they impact migrant health.
Files
Delivery System Design
Diabetes group visit information tools, PDSA and examination forms, and flow sheets
Decision Support: Diabetes
Health Disparities Collaboratives Library(2)
Health Disparities Collaboratives Library has tools specific to Special Populations including Migrant and mobile underserved populations, such as Cardiovascular Migrant Flow sheets, Diabetes Formulary for Migrants, etc.
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.
