WV AHEC Rural Community Health Scholars is a two-year program available to 75 of West Virginia’s top health professions students interested in rural health care across the state. The application deadline for the Rural Community Health Scholars program has been extended to Jan.1.
Additionally, RCH Scholars focuses on interprofessional education through clinical, didactic and community-based lenses, and emphasizes how each Scholar can create change and reshape the status quo for health care in his/ her/their community.
Throughout this program, Scholars will engage in clinical, didactic and community-based activities in rural and underserved areas of WV to refine their skill sets and positively impact the lives of West Virginians.
As a Scholar, students will:
Become leaders in their professions and communities
Receive supplemental training and education from experts in rural healthcare
Develop an astute understanding of how to best implement health care services in rural or underserved areas
Learn how to work as part of an interprofessional team
Provide meaningful patient care in the field and gain hands-on experience
Receive a participation award of $1,300 upon program completion
Health professions students in the following areas are eligible to apply: Dentistry, Dental Hygiene, Health Informatics and Information Management, Medicine (Osteopathic, Family, OBGYN, etc.), Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Nursing Ph.D., Nutrition/Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Public/Population Health Programs and more. Contact us if you do not see your discipline listed – you may still be eligible to participate.
Interested applicants should have an interest in rural health, have a minimum 3.0 GPA and have at least two years remaining in his/her/their degree program; the new class of accepted Scholars will begin this two year program at the date of acceptance and complete in June 2023.
Find more information on the RCH Scholars Program.
For questions, contact the RCH Scholars program manager at RCH_Scholars@hsc.wvu.edu.