Upcoming Continuing Education Programs

Lowcountry AHEC Offering DSM-5 Overview in May

Lowcountry AHEC is offering a training course reviewing the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) entitled, “DSM5: A First Look” on May 8 at the Trident Community Center in the Trident Family Health building in North Charleston. The long-anticipated DSM-5 has been in publication for nearly two years and reflects a significant shift in the way that clinicians will conceptualize and diagnose their patients. In this full-day training, participants will explore the revision rationale put forth by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and gain a greater understanding of the field's movement toward a more dimensional conceptualization of mental health disorders. The course will explore how the diagnostic criteria of each disorder has been revised in light of the growing body of neurological and psychiatric literature, as well as the impact that culture, gender, human development and ethnicity play on assessment.

This course will be an interdisciplinary program offered to nurses, social workers (non-social work hours), physical therapists and occupational therapists. Participants will require a thorough familiarity with the previsous edition of the DMS, DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision), and current psychiatric diagnoses to best benefit from this lecture.

Matt Dugan, MA, LPC, CACII, Program Administrator of Adult Services of the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services Center, will be the guest speaker.

To register, visit www.lcahec.com.

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Marchek Siblings Stay Connected With Upstate AHEC Through Academic Journey

A pair of siblings from Greer are giving back to current Upstate AHEC Health Careers students after completing the program themselves. Alex Marchek, MD is in his first year as a family medicine resident at Prisma Health Seneca. His younger sister by two years, Anna Marchek, is a second-year medical student at Edward Via College of Medicine (VCOM) Carolinas. “My mom likes to say she did good,” Anna joked. “Both of her kids are going to be doctors. She went two-for-two.” Anna (left) and Alex (right) Marchek are pictured with Nita Donald, Executive Director of Upstate AHEC. While Alex and Anna have both chosen to pursue medicine as a career, their interest in healthcare developed differently. Alex describes his discovery of health sciences as a slow realization. “It was definitely something that was on my radar really young,” said Alex. “My parents will say when I was six years old, I was talking about doing something in medicine. I had some really great science teachers in elementary, m

Pee Dee AHEC Clinical Placements Help Students See Challenges – and Opportunities – of Rural Primary Care

Third-year medical student Omar Guerrero didn’t find his passion for a career in healthcare until he began shadowing health professionals as an undergraduate student. “I just knew that I really loved science and working with my hands,” said Guerrero, who double-majored in Public Health and Cellular & Molecular Biology while at the University of South Florida. It all clicked for him once he was able to observe physicians in their encounters with patients. “I saw there was a real need for Spanish-speaking physicians,” said Guerrero. “There’s a lot of disconnect between providers and Spanish-speaking patients and I thought that was definitely an area that I could make a difference in.” Now in his third year at A.T. Still University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, Guerrero is doing a clinical placement at Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. in Richland. Guerrero was connected with Pee Dee AHEC and their Health Professions Student (HPS) program wh

Maternal and Infant Health Module Sprout Available on AHEC Learning Portal

In an effort to help improve maternal and infant health outcomes in South Carolina, SC AHEC has developed a new educational module titled Sprout , which serves as a collection of information, tools and resources available in the state to support healthy mothers and babies. The module, created in partnership with the SC Office of Rural Health’s (SCORH) Family Solutions and March of Dimes of SC , can be found on the AHEC Learning Portal at www.scahec.net/learn/sprout . Sprout is an expansion from SC AHEC’s routine educational programming, as the module is targeted toward community members instead of health professionals. To make sure information is reaching all members of the public, the program simplifies or defines many terms that are used commonly in healthcare and is written in plain language that non-healthcare professionals can easily understand. “The goal is for any resident of South Carolina who is interested in supporting healthy moms and babies in their own community

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