Southern Regional AHEC
FACTS:

Southern Regional AHEC was chartered in 1974 as a nonprofit corporation—Fayetteville Area Health Education Foundation, Inc.

Southern Regional AHEC is affiliated with Duke University Medical Center and is part of the NC AHEC Program.

The Duke/SR-AHEC Family Medicine Residency Program helps to bring family medicine physicians to the state and region.

Southern Regional AHEC serves health care professionals in a nine county region:  Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland.

The Duke/SR-AHEC Family Medicine Residency Program is dually accredited by ACGME and the AOA - the first one in North Carolina.

Southern Regional AHEC provides continuing education courses to over 6,000 health care professionals annually through Regional Education and Information Services.

The Southern Regional AHEC Women’s Health Fellowship is designed to provide formal training for one fellow per year in the full spectrum of Women’s Health.

Southern Regional AHEC’s Office of Primary Care Education (ORPCE)  facilitates community-based health education experiences for students in North Carolina’s academic medical centers.

What is SR-AHEC?
Southern Regional AHEC provides health care to the community and training to medical students and health care professionals.

Southern Regional AHEC was chartered in 1974 as a nonprofit corporation – Fayetteville Area Health Education Foundation, Inc. and was first named Fayetteville AHEC, better known as FAHEC. The name changed to Southern Regional AHEC or SR-AHEC in 1997 to better reflect the nine-county region served.

Who does SR-AHEC serve?
SR-AHEC serves as medical facility for families in Cumberland County and surrounding areas and a health care education facility and resource center for health care students and professionals in a nine-county region: Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland

What does SR-AHEC do?
Southern Regional AHEC serves a dual role in health care in the region. It is a medical facility for patients and an education campus for students and health care professionals to keep up to date on technology and treatment.
     -The Family Medicine Center is a medical facility that provides health care to patients of all ages. It is also home to Duke University Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program, where family physicians earn board certification.
     -Clinical Education and Services (CEAS) is part of the Famly Medicine Residency Program and coordinates learning opportunities for the family medicine residents and medical students.
     - Regional Education and Information Services (REIS) provides continuing education services to health care professionals in hospitals, public health departments, long term care centers and nursing faciilties, mental health centers and other regional health care agencies
•REIS also offers off-campus degree programs such as a Masters of Social Work through UNC - Chapel Hill School of Social Work.
•Information Access Center (IAC) is a medical library, offering state of the art technical and traditional medical literature resources as the Information Access Center          (IAC).
North Carolina Evidence-Based Practices Center (NCEBPC)
The North Carolina Evidence-Based Practices Center at Southern Regional AHEC provides continuing education and trains mental health clinicians and other service providers in the use of evidence based practices for effective treatment of mental illness. 
•Office of Regional Primary Care Education (ORPCE) Facilitates community-based health education experiences for health professions students from North Carolina’s academic medical centers.

What Is the Southern Regional AHEC Health Care Workforce Endowment?
The SR-AHEC Health Care Workforce Endowment was established in 2004 to sustain SR-AHEC Health Career Workforce Diversity programs that are presented to students in elementary, middle and high schools encouraging them to consider health care as a profession.

Shortages in critical provider professions such as primary care physicians, nursing, imaging technologists and pharmacists are expected to increase. Many programs that are successful in promoting health care professions as a career choice bring in no funds to support themselves. They are critical to the mission of FAHEF, Inc. and to our region, but require outside funding to sustain them.

What services are provided through The Specialty Medicine Center?
Doctors from Duke University Medical Center and UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine see patients in The Specialty Medicine Center. Clinic includes the only HIV specialty clinic in the region, a pediatric specialty clinic that evaluates children who are victims of abuse, a pediatric cardiology clinic and an adult endocrinology clinic. Two new clinics were added to the Duke Pediatric Cardiology Group in 2006 to assist in the evaluation and management of children with hyperlipemia, hypertension and obesity.  The Specialty Medicine Center is part of a network of statewide specialty clinics.