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Health Professions Students and Residents

Discover rural health care first-hand by living and learning in a rural community. You'll learn about rural health care systems and factors that influence health in rural areas. You'll also become part of the community in which you work—a unique experience that offers both personal and professional rewards.

Rural health educational opportunities

If you're a student in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, public health, or allied health, Minnesota AHEC can help you find rural community projects and clinical rotations of between one week and nine months. You'll live and work in a rural community that will welcome you with stimulating interprofessional and community outreach activities.

Support for health professions students and residents

Minnesota AHEC offers a partial reimbursement to offset expenses for food, mileage and housing during rotations, help in identifying temporary housing, and centralized information on loan repayment and scholarship opportunities. Read more in Support and Guidelines for Health Professions Students.

Learn more about rural practice in Minnesota

The Rural Health Modules provide an interprofessional perspective to rural practice with a focus on rural Minnesota. These modules are recommended for any health profession student doing a rotation in rural Minnesota.

Opportunities throughout Minnesota

Opportunities vary by region. Explore Minnesota AHEC Regions or click on the map to learn about each region's culture, communities, and unique educational opportunities.

Select your home region.

Working Interprofessionally

Minnesota AHEC supports  interprofessional education sites statewide, giving community-based health professionals and health professions students opportunities to implement interprofessional educational practices.

The Center for Interprofessional Education promotes interprofessional educational opportunities that advance teamwork and result in improved health care.  

Get involved!

To begin exploring potential opportunities available to you, contact the Minnesota AHEC Program Office. We will work closely with your school's experiential coordinator to match you up with a project or rotation that's right for you.

For more information

Visit our Resources page for more information about rural health professions education.

Events

Minnesota Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions cooperative agreement # 1U76-HP00599-01 funded through Title VII of the Public Health Service Act.