The Maine AHEC Network recently accepted its third cohort of Maine AHEC Scholars to join the nationally recognized AHEC Scholar program. This cohort of health professions students represents Maine AHEC’s most diverse cohort of health professions students yet, with students from three different universities and eleven different health professions programs.
Each year AHECs from around the country invite students who are interested in working with underserved populations to join the AHEC Scholar program. In Maine, 45 students are accepted each year with nearly twice that many students applying. Students who are accepted into the Maine AHEC Scholar Honors Distinction program must complete a prescriptive curriculum of 160 hours of learning focused on one of six HRSA designated core competency areas that is split between didactic and community-based service learning opportunities. Students who complete the AHEC Scholar program are awarded a stole and certificate at graduation to recognize their commitment to improving the health of underserved populations.
The majority of participating students are from the University of New England with a smaller number of students being from Tufts Medical School and the University of Southern Maine Public Health Program. Both Tufts and USM are participating in the Maine AHEC Scholar program for the first time this year.
The full list of 2020 Maine AHEC Scholars is below.
- Violetta Rucinski Osteopathic Medicine
- Tara Hebert Osteopathic Medicine
- Morgan Brown Osteopathic Medicine
- Bianca Bustamente Osteopathic Medicine
- Madison Oxley Osteopathic Medicine
- Melissa Kessel Osteopathic Medicine
- Isabel Smith Osteopathic Medicine
- Victoria Brewer Osteopathic Medicine
- Quinlan Cacic Osteopathic Medicine
- Shameem Fakory Osteopathic Medicine
- Conner Lajoie Osteopathic Medicine
- Morganne Robinson Osteopathic Medicine
- Anna Mirianashvili Osteopathic Medicine
- Alexis Schneider Osteopathic Medicine
- Aishwarya Ayyappan Osteopathic Medicine
- Charlotte Kirk Osteopathic Medicine
- Abigail Blake Osteopathic Medicine
- Amelia Keane Osteopathic Medicine
- Rebecca Young Dental Medicine
- Sweta Parikh Dental Medicine
- Alec Daigle Dental Medicine
- George Fouad Dental Medicine
- Marian Bekheit Dental Medicine
- Kendal Millard Pharmacy
- Nasro Mohamed Pharmacy
- Susan Dolan Pharmacy
- Joshua Carver Pharmacy
- Shelby Lane Pharmacy
- Chad Winn Physical Therapy
- Katelyn Asmus Occupational Therapy
- Sarah Porter Physician Assistant
- Morgan Dube Physician Assistant
- Amanda Johnson Physician Assistant
- Micaela Phillips Physician Assistant
- Katherine Pelletier Physician Assistant
- Morgan Rodway Physician Assistant
- Alexandra McCown Social Work
- Kayla Blackborow Social Work
- Tiarra LaPierre Social Work
- Samantha Dinsdale Public Health
- Anita Doughty Public Health
- Rena Chen Nursing
- Lily Humerian Dental Hygiene
- Brittney MacAuley Dental Hygiene
- Carley Quinn Dental Hygiene
- Rayne Whitten Allopathic Medicine
- Caitlin Farrington Allopathic Medicine
- Madeline Andrews Allopathic Medicine
- Emma Freeman Allopathic Medicine
- Bailey Urbach Allopathic Medicine