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Reaching the Underserved eNewsletter March 2007
This March issue highlights "Spring: A Season of Clearing, Planting, and Expectation."
Cultural Competency CME Portal
This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH), offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care. You may access free online courses accredited for continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help you and your organization promote respectful, understandable, and effective care to your increasingly diverse patients.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine Pesticide Educational Materials
Pesticide educational materials for promotoras and the community. Includes promotora lesson plans and consmer educatiaonal materials about pesticide safety and pregnancy.
FDA Approves First U.S. Vaccine for Humans Against the Avian Influenza Virus H5N1
The vaccine could be used in the event the current H5N1 avian virus were to develop the capability to efficiently spread from human to human, resulting in the rapid spread of the disease across the globe. Should such an influenza pandemic emerge, the vaccine may provide early limited protection in the months before a vaccine tailored to the pandemic strain of the virus could be developed and produced
Boys also should get HPV shots, medical experts say
Some medical experts are calling for boys, in addition to girls, to be routinely vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus. Although men can't get the cervical cancer that can result from HPV, they can get HPV and pass it on to their partners
Kids with asthma should get flu shots
Children with asthma should get flu shots to protect them, but only 3 in 10 do, U.S. health officials said.
Northwest Regional Primary Care Association Job Bank
If you are interested in a clinical job posting with a community health center in AK, ID, OR or WA, please visit our clinical job listing to search for positions and upload your information.
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
Sponsors an internet-based job bank at www.midwifejobs.com, for which they charge $250 for a 4-week listing. ACNM also has a description of Federally Qualified Health Centers in relation to the midwifery profession.
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
Operates an online job bank
smalltownmdjobs.com
Online services aimed at recruiting doctors and nurses to rural locations
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
The American Academy of Physician Assistants uses the same database, as do other professional organizations,
AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians
Online Job Bank. Family physicians remain in high demand and have a variety of practice settings available to them. To view your options and current openings
NACHC: The National Association of Community Health Centers
Online Job Bank. You may contact them at:
7200 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 210, Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone: 301-347-0400, Fax: 301-347-0459
National Health Service Corps
Provides information on communities that are currently recruiting primary care clinicians and is not exclusive to NHSC Scholars and those interested in the NHSC Loan Repayment Program.
PedJobs
PedJobs is the official employment resource of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is free to the job seeker.
Hepatitis B Facts: Testing&Vaccination
The "Hepatitis B Facts: Testing and vaccination" was updated to
reflect changes made to ACIP's recommendations that expand the
definition of who is eligible to receive hepatitis B vaccine.
MMWR corrects an error in the vaccination schedule for persons aged 0-18 years.January 23,2007
In the MMWR QuickGuide "Recommended Immunization Schedules for
Persons Aged 0-18 Years—United States, 2007," an error occurred
in the first sentence of the second bullet of footnote 10 under
Figure 2 on page Q-3. The sentence should read, "Administer 2
doses of varicella vaccine to persons aged <13 years at least 3
months apart."
A Migrant Farmworker Occupational Health Reference Manual for Clinicians
Produced by NYCAMH and MCN, offers information for the diagnosis and treatment of occupational injuries. This online resource provides information on farmworker crop profiles, diagnosis and treatment, patient education, cultural competency, and much more.
Interim VIS for Varicella, January 10, 2007
On January 10, CDC released a revised interim VIS for varicella.
It includes changes to reflect the new two-dose schedule for
children and the availability of the measles-mumps-rubella- varicella (MMRV) vaccine. After ACIP publishes these updated recommendations in MMWR, a final varicella VIS will be developed.
What Can Healthcare Providers Do if They Have Little or No Vaccine During NIVW? November 28, 2006
The purpose of NIVW is to emphasize the importance of influenza vaccination and the need to continue vaccination activities beyond Thanksgiving and into December and January, with providers implementing outreach and offering vaccination prior to, during, and following NIVW that are tailored to the patients they plan to serve and the vaccine supply that they have available.
