Continuing Education Courses
Sources
There are more than 100 events
totaling over 300 hours
providing education credits to
more than 5,000 education health
professionals.
Specific courses include:
Heartland National
Tuberculosis Center:
The
Center and the South Central
AHEC have
partnered to provide distance
learning
throughout the 13 states served
by Heartland.
TB education for nurses has been
broadcast
from the UTHSCSA through web
based
technology to Texas, Oklahoma,
Illinois
and North Dakota. The training
sessions
are archived on the South Texas
AHEC
webpage as well as the Heartland
National
TB webpage for future reference.
http://www.heartlandntbc.org/
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EPA
Asthma
EPA
Asthma (PEACHes) - Teach
Back,
Reach Out:
Professionally-trained
Environmental
Ambassadors for
Community (PEACHes)
 Partnered with the
Environment Medicine
component of the
Department of Family and
Community Medicine, this
project’s purpose is to
train community health
workers to understand,
evaluate, and intervene
when household indoor
air exposures pose a
potential risk for
children
or adults with
asthma. The project’s
activities
specifically
address three EPA
priority areas:
“Indoor
Environmental Asthma
Triggers
– Education and
Exposure Reduction,”
“Indoor Environmental
Asthma Triggers
– Healthcare Professional
Training,” and
“Environmental Tobacco
Smoke (ETS)
– Education
and Exposure Reduction.
There are four
interrelated activities
for this project:
-
Develop,
publish, and distribute
2,500 copies of a
culturally-appropriate
Spanish-language comic book
on the role of indoor air
exposures in asthma control.
-
Develop
and implement a
culturally-appropriate,
Spanish-language education
and training program for
community health workers on
the integration of
environmental management
into asthma care.
-
In-home
evaluation of 450 households
affected by asthma in the
communities served by the
trained community health
workers.
-
Assist
community health workers
with the Brownsville
Community Health Clinic in
providing a “Asthma-Healthy
Indoor Environments”
conference for attendees
from at least 50 families
with an adult and/or child
with asthma.
EPA Asthma Site
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Pediatric Lead Screening
Project
The Pediatric Lead Poisoning
Project was
established in 2006
in cooperation with the
Department of Community
Pediatrics and
Dr. Victor German
and Dr. Tony Scott at
the
UTHSCSA. The project is two-
fold: increase the capacity and
knowledge of border health
professionals about the issue of
pediatric
lead
poisoning through
a series of professional
education programming and
development of a
training
program
for Promotores of the
Texas
border region.
The
professional education
outreach
is done
through video
conferencing
and live
programming.
Each “Promotore”
trained receives a “Lead
Prevention
Tool Kit” that
includes a comprehensive set of
brochures,
posters and
presentation aids to assist in
community
based training
efforts. Information contained
in the tool
kit was developed
from the information gathered by
the
Department of Community
Pediatrics in their HUD
funded
Project LIFE. All South Texas
AHEC Centers
have participated
in the project.
PEDS Site
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Health Workforce Diversity
Conferences
 At these conferences you can find out such things as:
-
How our
state's demographics impact
the health care work force
in Texas
-
The opportunities that exist
to expand the health care
work force
-
How to assist diverse
populations successfully
complete health
professions training and
move into the work force
Help Texas Area Health
Education Centers change the
dynamics of healthcare
workforce diversity in
Texas.
Health Workforce
Diversity Conferences
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Family & Community
Medicine
The University of Texas
Health Science Center at
San Antonio
"Inventing a healthier
future for families and
communities
in San
Antonio, South Texas and
beyond." Find out more
about the Family &
Community Medicine
division of UTHSCSA
including their
residency program,
clinics, education and
research.
Family & Community
Medicine Web Site
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Autism & Autism
Spectrum Disorders
Autism Society of
America (ASA) is the
leading
voice and
resource of the entire
autism community
in
education, advocacy,
services, research and
support. The ASA is
committed to meaningful
participation and
self-determination in
all aspects of life for
individuals on the
autism
spectrum and
their families. accomplishes
its ongoing
mission
through close
collaboration
with a
successful
network of
chapters, members
and
supporters.
Autism Society of
America Web Site
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Advanced Life Support in
Obstetrics
 The
Advanced Life Support in
Obstetrics (ALSO)
course
helps physicians and
other health care
providers develop and
maintain the knowledge
and skills they need to
effectively manage
potential
emergencies
during the perinatal
period. It also
serves
as an aid for training
residents in obstetrics
as well as family
medicine.
The course includes a
syllabus, lectures and
workshops
using
mannequins for hands-on
training. Objective
testing
and procedure
performance evaluation
are incorporated
into
the course. ALSO
emphasizes labor and
delivery
room
emergencies but also
covers prenatal risk
assessment,
first-trimester
bleeding, consultant
relationships, helping
parents cope with a
birth crisis and
information on reducing
medical malpractice
risk.
ALSO Web SIte
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For more info
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National Institute of
Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS)
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