urn:taro:utmb.00007 Area Health Education Center Records, (1972-1979)The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. May 1988 Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., March 2003. Finding aid written in English. March 2006.Corrections and further encoding to TARO project standards by Patricia R. Wilkinson.September 2011.Corrections and further encoding to TARO project standards by Patricia R. Callaway. Area Health Education Center Records, (1972-1979) RG 8 Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections, Moody Medical Library,

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1035, phone (409) 772-2397

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The Area Health Education Center was a program in the early 1970s designed to bring health awareness to South Texas and to encourage members of that region to seek possible careers in various health fields, with the hopes that they would return to South Texas with their skills. Summer sessions were organized, bringing high school and college students to Galveston for workshops on medical careers and hospital administration. Follow-up studies were done in hopes that exposure to the medical field encouraged students to pursue medical careers.

In a separate program, University of Texas Medical Branch students went south to Hidalgo, Texas as a part of the Hidalgo Health Assessment Program. While there, the students assisted in the screening of hundreds of Hidalgo school-aged children for common childhood health problems and then advised the families on proper hygiene and health care. Documentation of both programs is included in this collection.

The collection is contained in 10 archival boxes and comprising approximately four feet of shelf space.

SERIES DESCRIPTION Series 1. Administrative Papers:

Annual reports, proposals, budgets, minutes, and grants.

Series 2. AHEC Publications Series 3. AHEC Summer Programs:

Evaluations, student rosters, newsletters, and publicity.

Series 4. Hidalgo Health Assessment Program:

Community survey, data compilations, recommendations.

Series 5. Slides, Photographs, Cassettes:

Various slides and photos of AHEC activities, and two teaching cassettes on health careers.

Detailed Description 1-3 Series 1. ADMINISTRATIVE PAPERS 1 1 01 Year---AHEC Annual Report 1972-73 1 2 01 Year---AHEC Proposal 1972-73 1 3 02 Year---AHEC Annual Report 1973-74 1 4 02 Year---AHEC Proposal (1) 1973-74 1 5 02 Year---AHEC Proposal (2) 1973-74 1 6 02 Year---AHEC Site Registry 1973-74 1 7 02 Year---AHEC Staff Registry 1973-74 2 8 03 Year---AHEC Annual Report (1) 1974-75 2 9 03 Year---AHEC Annual Report (2) 1974-75 2 10 04 Year---AHEC Annual Report 1975-76 2 11 05 Year---AHEC Annual Report 1976-77 2 12 06 Year---AHEC Annual Report 1977-78 2 13 Administrative Correspondence 1973-77 2 14 AHEC Budget Information 1972-77 2 15 AHEC Staff Meeting Minutes 1973 3 18 AHEC Technical Proposal 1978 2 16 AHEC Technical Proposal (1) 1977 3 17 AHEC Technical Proposal (2) 1977 3 19 AHEC---Odegaard Report to Carnegie Commission 1979 3 23 RFP No. NIH 72-4391 (1) 1973 3 24 RFP No. NIH 72-4391 (2) 1973 3 25 RFP No. NIH 72-4391 (3) 1973 3 20 RFP No. NIH 72-4391 (Part I) 1972 3 21 RFP No. NIH 72-4391 (Part II (1)) 1972 3 22 RFP No. NIH 72-4391 (Part II (2)) 1972 4-5 Series 2. AHEC PUBLICATIONS 4 26 A Plan For All Seasons 4 27 A Regional Partnership 4 28 Allied Health Manpower in Texas 1973 4 29 Area Health Education Centers 4 30 Associated Health Occupations---Curriculum Plan 4 31 Associated Health Occupations---Freshman Core Year 4 32 Associated Health Occupations---Galveston College 4 33 Associated Health Occupations---Respiratory Therapy 4 34 Continuing Education Resources: Allied Health Sciences 5 35 Decision: A Hospital Administration Game 5 36 Health Career Investigations (1) 5 37 Health Career Investigations (2) 5 38 Initial Description of the National AHEC Program 5 39 Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council 5 40 Meeting Health Manpower Needs 5 41 Termination Report of the Lower Rio Grande Valley 5-6 Series 3. AHEC SUMMER PROGRAMS 5 42 AHEC---Summer Student Newsletters 1974 5 43 Criteria for Student Selection 5 44 Evaluation---School of Allied Health Summer Programs 1973 5 45 Evaluation---School of Allied Health Summer Programs 1974 6 48 Evaluation---School of Allied Health Summer Programs 1976 6 46 Evaluation---School of Allied Health Summer Programs (1) 1975 6 47 Evaluation---School of Allied Health Summer Programs (2) 1975 6 49 SEE & SEP Summer Program Student Rosters 1974 6 50 SEE & SEP Summer Program Student Rosters 1975 6 51 SEE & SEP Summer Program Students 1974 6 52 SEE & SEP Summer Program Students 1975 6 53 SEE & SEP Summer Programs 1973 6 54 SEE & SEP Summer Programs 1975 6 55 SEE & SEP Summer Programs 1976 6 56 SEE & SEP Summer Programs---Publicity 1973-74 6 57 SET Summer Course 1974-75 7 58-70 Series 4. HIDALGO HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROGRAM 7 58 Health and Health Care in Hidalgo: A Community Survey 7 59 Hidalgo Health Assessment Program 1976-78 7 61 Hidalgo Health Assessment Program--Data Compilation 7 62 Hidalgo Health Assessment Program--Data Compilation 7 63 Hidalgo Health Assessment Program--Data Compilation 7 60 Hidalgo Health Assessment Program--Data Compilation 1975-77 7 64 Hidalgo Health Assessment Program--Data Compilation 1976-77 7 65 Hidalgo Health Assessment Program--Data Compilation 1977-78 7 66 Hidalgo Project---Improving Children's Mental Health 1975 7 67 Hidalgo Project---Optional Health Education Courses 7 68 Hidalgo Project---School/Community Health Education 1975 7 69 Hidalgo Project---Student Survey on Health Education Interest 7 70 Hidalgo Project---UTMB Student Perceptions 1979 8-10 Series 5. SLIDES, PHOTOGRAPHS, CASSETTES 10 78 AHEC Photographs---Miscellaneous 8 71 Slide Presentation---City of Hidalgo 1976 8 72 Slides---Health Careers 8 73 Slides---Health Education Assessment Program (1) 9 74 Slides---Health Education Assessment Program (2) 9 75 Slides---Hidalgo 9 77 Slides---Hidalgo, Summer Programs 9 76 Slides---South Texas 9 76 Teaching Cassettes (2)---Health Careers (In: Audiocassettes from Archival Collections, Box 1)