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s <br />-Academic Focus in Proposal <br />- School gf Public Health is proposing the development of <br />multidisciplinary field teams of students (hopefully including medical <br />students) who will assist communities in assessing needs and in <br />planning and carrying out interventions identified by communities; and <br />comcomitant changes in curriculum to integrate practice concepts. <br />Identification and recruitment of additional practice - oriented faculty. <br />Faculty will be assigned a certain percentage of time to be devoted to <br />assisting the county coalition with identified needs. Development of <br />criteria in the practice arena which will be part of the promotion and <br />tenure process in the School is another focus, as is the creation of a <br />Public Health Practice Unit that will support the practice orientation and <br />practice faculty in the SPH. Activities such as special invitational <br />training events, establishment of a practice database, and technical <br />assistance and consultation to counties are planned. <br />-School of Medicine plans include placing medical students rotating <br />through their community placement site in these four counties, <br />development of a seminar on public health issues for these students, <br />seeking and cultivating faculty with expertise in community -based <br />research and practice as mentors for students, and creating support <br />mechanisms to enable faculty to engage in community- based' reserach <br />efforts. <br />-Wake AHEC will have as one of its primary responsibilities, not only <br />continuing education activities, but will also be the locus for managing <br />the upward mobility activities and establishing a tracking system for <br />the entire consortium. Activities such as a buddy system between <br />graduate health science professions students and middle and high <br />school students with an interest in health; job fairs targeted in the <br />minority communities identified; health careers camps either in an after <br />school or summer format; Saturday school where youth and families <br />learn about high school requirements for health careers later; and the <br />development of for credit programs for high school students in the <br />health area are proposed. The primary target will be middle through <br />high school age youth. <br />Still to be developed <br />• Evaluation plan for each county and for the overall concept <br />• Sustainability plans <br />• Replicating the model to other parts of the state <br />• The approximate budget for each year of the proposal right now stands <br />around $800,000 per year, not including evaluation plans plus a few <br />other items that need discussion. <br />