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JHCPU
ACU members receive online access to the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Click the image to learn more about JHCPU.
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September is National Yoga Month
Learn about Teaching for Diversity, a grant program for yoga instructors to work with underserved populations. |
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Voices from the Frontline
ACU wants to learn from you. As part of our Voices from the Frontline project, ACU and its partners will be hosting a video story booth at the National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice on Sept. 23-25. Plan to stop by the story booth to record a message about your experience as a health care provider to the underserved. Look for information about the project at the conference registration desk. For more information on the Summit, visit www.allclinicians.org.
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ACU Career Center OpensSpecial Introductory Offer - Employers save 15 percent ACU's new, interactive, online job board, the ACU Career Center is now available for both employers and job seekers. To celebrate launch of the Career Center, ACU is offering employers 15 percent off job postings. Use the promo code ACU15 when placing your order.  The ACU Career Center offers job seekers free and confidential resume posting, automated weekly email notification of new job listings, and the ability to save jobs for later review. You can search for jobs by discipline, location, employer and other keyword terms. Visit the the ACU Career Center to start your search. Save 15% with Promo Code ACU15  | Employers receive targeted access to quality health professionals, along with quick and easy job posting and online job activity reports. The ACU Career Center is part of the National Healthcare Career Network (NHCN), a network of over 200 top healthcare associations and professional organizations, including the American Hospital Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of American Medical Colleges. Please check us out. To find a job or fill a position, visit http://careers.clinicians.org TODAY! |
Emerging Leaders
The National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice announced the selection of three emerging leaders in health care who have made a commitment to work with the medically underserved in the United States. ACU, a co-sponsor of the National Summit, congratulates Evan Russell, Haley Stolp and Hanna Stirling. Read their profiles here.
Russell Stolp Stirling
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Starting Insulin: A Patient Guide
 ACU and the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation released of the first of 10 educational handouts for patients who are starting insulin. This upcoming series, in both English and Spanish, will be designed in two formats: low literacy and very low literacy. The first handout in the series, "Using Insulin to treat your Diabetes: What it means for you," is now available to download here. |
Clinical Resources The Effective Health Care Program, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), helps clinicians get access to evidence-based findings on the effectiveness and risks of options for numerous health conditions - from diabetes to cancer to cardiac conditions. This initiative supports a growing portfolio of patient-centered outcomes research known as comparative effectiveness research. Clinicians are particularly encouraged to access the Effective Health Care Program's clinician guides, which summarize the bottom-line findings from research reviews. Each guide includes a confidence scale that indicates the strength of evidence for key findings. As examples, here are links to two guides: - Premixed Insulin Analogues: A Comparison With Other Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes (PDF)
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Fellowships And Scholarships
Healthcare Career Network Scholarships
Apply now for the fall 2010 National Healthcare Career Network Scholarships. Two $1500 awards will be made. Applicants must be enrolled as full- and part-time students in an undergraduate or graduate health care program at an accredited college or university OR professionals pursuing health care continuing education and certifications. Click here for details. Deadline: October 15.
3 Georgetown University Family Medicine Fellowships These fellowships are for Board-Certified or Board-Eligible Physicians who have completed family medicine residency and are committed to advocating and caring for the underserved. Fellows benefit from comprehensive mentoring and significant growth opportunities in faculty development, patient care, administration, leadership, research and networking. Fellows also do regular clinical work in community health centers, 4-6 weeks of inpatient attending, and precept residents; competitive salary and benefits. See the ACU website for more information. Deadline: March 31.
Free Health IT Training
Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is offering 100 percent paid tuition, books and fees for students enrolling in one of six new programs training workers in health IT and electronic health records adoption. NOVA is one of 72 community colleges across the nation providing expanded health IT training. Classes start Sept. 30. Call Anya Norman or Tony Mariani, 703-822-0017, for more information. Visit www.nvcc.edu/medial to apply for college admission.
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Conferences and E-Learning
For a more complete list of upcoming conferences and webinars, visit the ACU website.Oct. 12, An introductory Web conference on AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program: Integrating Comparative Effectiveness Research into Everyday Practice, 2 - 3 p.m. (ET). Nov. 18 - 20, the 20th Annual Midwest Stream Farmworker Health Forum in Austin, Texas. Registration is now open; the early bird registration fee is available until Oct. 22. Nov. 30, Understanding What Works in Improving Health Literacy, a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Health Literacy and the J&J Health Care Institute at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, Calif. The workshop will cover the clinical impact of health literacy improvements, economic outcomes of health literacy implementations, and how stakeholders can affect health literacy. |
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Mobile Medical Apps iMedicalApps is an online medical publication that provides commentary and reviews of mobile medical technology and applications. Written by a team of physicians and medical students, clinicians can find thorough reviews of medical mobile technologies and their usefulness for clinicians. |
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