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The Michigan Area Health Education Center (MI-AHEC) was established in 2010 to improve access to primary care for all Michigan residents, many of whom live in areas that have too few health professionals. Through recruitment and retention initiatives, as well as special clinical education programs, MI-AHEC seeks to expose disadvantaged students to health care opportunities, expand the number of underrepresented minorities in the health professions, and encourage students and health professionals to work in areas that need greater access to primary care providers. The national AHEC program was created by Congress in 1971.

Michigan AHEC is funded in part through the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions Federal Grant # U77HP26582

"The AHEC Scholars program has been beneficial to me in my studies as well in the professional field in many ways. It has taught me to work collaboratively with Nurse practitioners and Nurses that I am currently working with in the field of harm reduction all across the United States in a telehealth setting. Working together as a team for the betterment of the patients that I am working with. It also has taught me so much about myself and the work that I want to continue to do in the future."

April Ruthig LLMSW, AHEC Scholars Alumni, Psychotherapist at Superior Center

Michigan Area Health Education Center map of locations Southeast Regional Center Mid-Central Regional Center  Northern Lower Regional Center Upper Peninsula Regional Center Western Region Community Consortium