{"id":2240,"date":"2012-08-09T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:41:28","slug":"congratulations-to-the-pa-program-awarded-hrsa-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2012\/08\/09\/congratulations-to-the-pa-program-awarded-hrsa-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the PA Program, awarded HRSA grant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>We are pleased to announce that the PA Program was awarded a HRSA Physician Assistant Training in Primary Care Grant. The PA Program submitted the grant proposal this past May, co-written with support from senior associate dean Kyle Meyer and the SAHP staff.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a brief look at what the grant projects involve:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective 1: <\/strong>Implementing recruitment strategies focused on those with underserved, disadvantaged or military backgrounds; and academic support for educationally disadvantaged students.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective 2: <\/strong>Enriching PA student learning experiences through six activities: 1) expansion of cultural competency instruction, 2) student participation in providing care for indigent patients, 3) new clinical rotations in underserved areas, 4) training for preceptors as primary care mentors\/instructors for interprofessional student teams, 5) enhancement of the data tracking system and 6) creation of a seminar series promoting service to the underserved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective 3: <\/strong>Hosting a biennial <em>Physician Assistants Rural Primary Care National Conference<\/em> to exchange &#8220;best practices&#8221; that sustain primary care by PAs in underserved communities.<em> <\/em>Five PA programs have agreed to help with a pilot\/planning conference in 2013 (Des Moines University, Union College , University of Iowa, University of South Dakota, and Wichita State University). The initial national conference will be in 2014, followed by a second conference in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> The grant extends over five years, with funding of nearly $1 million.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/voicedwhispering.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"dPNSps\"><!-- dPNSps --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the PA Program was awarded a HRSA Physician Assistant Training in Primary Care Grant. The PA Program submitted the grant proposal this past May, co-written with support from senior associate dean Kyle Meyer and the SAHP staff. Below is a brief look at what the grant projects involve: Objective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-associate-deans-office","category-kudos","category-physician-assistant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}