Organization Details
The Hawaiʻi/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center (AHEC) strives to provide recruitment, placement, and retention activities to address community, state, and regional health workforce needs, performing health and health workforce needs assessments and improving distance learning and telehealth utilization. There are four primary activity areas:
- Educating K-16+ students about health careers in hopes that they will pursue careers in healthcare.
- Training health professions students in the rural and underserved communities of Hawai‘i and the Pacific Basin, often in inter-professional teams so that they will return to areas of need with the teamwork skills needed.
- Recruiting healthcare professionals to rural and underserved areas and providing continuing education to make sure that everyone has access to the care they need, where they need it, when they need it.
- Conducting health profession workforce assessments to determine shortages and plan interventions to improve workforce supply.
Our GOAL is to facilitate access to an abundant supply of knowledgeable and culturally competent providers through training and recruitment partnerships that will help develop a health professional workforce that represents and takes excellent care of the population of the US Pacific. We provide accredited, high-quality continuing education offerings and professional support to meet the needs of healthcare professionals, especially those practicing in underserved areas. These programs are designed to enhance clinical skills and help maintain professional certifications.
The Hawai‘i/Pacific Basin AHEC makes three promises:
- We will help any student in Hawai‘i/Pacific region who is interested in a healthcare career get there
- We will find a speaker for any school on health or health careers
- We will entertain any ideas you have to improve the healthcare system so that everyone here gets the care they need, where they need it, when they need it
Opportunity Details
Do you know a high school student interested in research?
CIRCLE (Consortium for Increasing Research and Collaborative Learning Experiences) is excited to offer students a unique and exciting opportunity to engage in meaningful research projects over the summer. Our program is open to all 9th—12th-grade high school students.
Our mission is to inspire and empower the next generation of researchers in the state of Hawai'i! Through CIRCLE, we can help students develop the critical thinking and creativity necessary for a researcher/scientist. Our summer research program strives to create an inclusive and supportive environment where students can explore their passions and develop their research skills under the guidance of experienced principal investigators. We believe that this program not only teaches students about research but also helps them build self-confidence, resilience, and a lifelong love of learning.
This is a DISTANCE RESEARCH opportunity, where students will meet with their team of students and the principal investigator over virtual platforms such as Zoom and Slack.
We're proud to be associated with the Area Health Education Center at the John. A Burns School of Medicine on Oahu, and as a 5-year SEPA (Science Education Partnership Award) recipient, we're committed to connecting high school and college/grad students remotely (via Zoom, Slack, and Email) with researchers and mentors to teach them essential research skills and offer mentorship for careers in science and healthcare fields.
This is an amazing opportunity to gain hands-on research skills, meet those in the field, and possibly be a part of a scientific publication. Share this opportunity with your students ASAP, as applications close on Saturday, APRIL 15th!
Feel free to reach out with any questions or visit the student-made CIRCLE website: https://sites.google.com/view/circlegrant/home
