Tip 13:
Back to School
Local universities and health professions schools are great places to start a long-term recruitment pool. The approach can be as informal as an annual campus presentation, or as formal as an internship or a preceptorship program.
+ Arrange an internship program that offers undergraduates an experience in rural health care, family practice, or dentistry
+ Promote the unique training opportunities your clinic offers, e.g., rural dentistry, HIV treatment, substance abuse therapy, etc.
+ Establish ties with key faculty members, as well as the career and internship centers on campus, to keep your clinic’s opportunities in the forefront
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Explain to students the benefits of working for a clinic that serves a health professional shortage area (HPSA), and be sure to tell them about the NHSC Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs. If they enjoy their rotation at your clinic, they just might come back!
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Healthy Move
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Build relationships with NHSC Ambassadors across the country. They are campus-based faculty and staff at health professions schools and universities, and are also at Area Health Education Centers (AHECs). Find out if there’s an Ambassador at a school near you—call the NHSC today at
1-800-221-9393, or visit http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/ambassadors/.
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