VCOM 2021 Annual Report

STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS

Healthcare Workforce Affiliates

National Center for the Analysis of Healthcare Data T he National Center for the Analysis of Healthcare Data (NCAHD) was established in 2007 as a national research center to support not only VCOM’s faculty, students and staff needs relative to the healthcare workforce, but other healthcare-related public and private entities. During the last two years, NCAHD has worked primarily on improving the quality of their based data (enhanced state licensure) to enhance the ability to find alumni and to map the growing disparity in Primary Care access between rural and urban areas across the

Southwest Virginia AHEC (SWVA AHEC)

S WVA AHEC’s mission is to educate, recruit and retain a highly qualified, diverse and culturally competent workforce for the 21 counties and seven cities that comprise Southwest Virginia. This is accomplished by offering a variety of pipeline Provided CME for 300 healthcare

programs aimed at exposing high school students to a range of healthcare careers; multi-disciplinary CME on an array of current medical topics that foster

professionals, IPE for 200 healthcare students and pipeline programs for over 700 high school students

country. The Center also

NCAHD can also map healthcare data and provide analysis results

and build a teamwork approach to treating patients in rural and underserved areas; the Virginia Scholars Program; and interdisciplinary courses for current undergraduate and graduate level healthcare students. In addition to partnering with VCOM-Virginia, the SWVA AHEC collaborates with other institutions of higher education in Southwest Virginia that offer healthcare professions degree programs, including three community colleges, Virginia Tech, Radford University, Henry and Lee Physical Therapy, Bluefield College and Appalachian College of Pharmacy. http://swvrahec.org/

created a new methodology to determine specialty physician needs/ demands .

Providing high-quality products and analysis results in additional exposure for both VCOM and NCAHD, with products showcased on the https://www.ncahd.org/ website.

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