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Oklahoma Area Health Education Centers

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Oklahoma Area Health Education Centers

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  1. Health CareersBeyond the Headcount OKAHEC Center for Rural HealthOklahoma State University - Center for Health Sciences National AHEC Conference Las Vegas, NV

  2. Oklahoma AHEC regions

  3. Careers Programming • Awareness -A brief introduction to the array of health professions -Counted in aggregate • Exploration -In depth experiences to expose student directly to health careers and assist them in academic career -Students registered and individual activities documented

  4. Documentation of Program Activity • Contract work plans reflect general output goals • Data reported monthly to the program office (used for education, program evaluation and development, and reporting for state, fed, university) • Entered into statewide database • Quarterly reports generated for centers (Ethnic breakdown, students, hours, activities by level)

  5. Volume of Exploration Documentation

  6. % of staff time spent on evaluation and documentation • Staff time devoted to documentation of program activities was estimated at a total of 2.85 FTE (statewide) • Equal to 12% of total staff in the state • Equal to $137,690 in salary and benefits statewide per year • All programs, not just Careers

  7. Mapping Hometowns of Exploration Participants • Used to reflect and discuss coverage areas and strategies • Observe year to year coverage and focus areas • Educate legislators on the scope of areas reached by the careers program (particularly rural)

  8. Tracking Outcomes • Started with federal reporting tables required with 3 year competing renewal • 20+ students transitioning to health professions training programs (also 40+) • 20+ students entering pre-health training programs

  9. More Formalized Process for Tracking • Continued year to year • Included in contracted plan of work with expectation of 70% response rate • Coordinators are asked to do the follow-up • Program office provides a list of students for their region who are identified as expected graduates w/20+ hours on record • In ’08, average time for follow-up was 35 minutes per unsuccessful contact attempt and 46 minutes per successful contact

  10. Current Follow-Up Results by Center

  11. Methods of Contact • Email (31.6%) • Phone (7%) • Snail Mail (1.9%) • Via Counselor or Teacher Contacts (23.3%) • Social Networking Sites – Facebook, Myspace (18.6%) • Other – mostly personal contacts outside of school (1.4%) • Unknown (16.3 %)

  12. Which methods of contact are most successful?

  13. Outcome Categories • Students who have successfully transitioned to a health professions training program or are currently working in a health profession • Students who have transitioned to college, but have not yet committed to a health career • Students who have not yet graduated • Students who have dropped out or have graduated and did not continue to college or a health professions training program • Students who could not be found/no information available

  14. Graduate Follow-up Results

  15. Activity Participation by Outcomes

  16. Past Participation by Outcome

  17. Past Participation by Outcome

  18. 4yr follow up of transition students • ’05 grads with 20+ hrs who were found to have transitioned to college with a commitment to a health career were followed up again in ‘09 • Done by intern (Health Promotion Undergrad) • 79 kids in pilot group • Averaged nearly 2 hrs per successful contact • Took 60hrs to complete • 64% of successful contacts made through Email, Myspace, or Facebook

  19. Results of Successful Transition Follow-up

  20. Transition and Retention of Minorities

  21. OKAHEC Career Exploration Participants (20 or more hours of programming) Compare to 57% (state linear college-going rate) 100 Youth (95% Disadvantaged) (35% Minority) 90 Continue to College Or Other Training 56 Committed to Health Profession In the 1st year following high school graduation

  22. OKAHEC Career Exploration Participants (20 or more hours of programming) 80% of those committed to HP in 1st year of college 94% retention rate (compared to 50% for state) 56 Committed to a Health Profession 53 Still in College Or Completed Training 45 Still Committed to Health Profession In the 4th year following High School Graduation

  23. OKAHEC Career Exploration Participants (20+ Hrs) 45 Trained for a Health Profession or HP Graduate Program (Based on small numbers. Trends are preliminary)

  24. Other Questions • What about those with <20 hrs? • What about graduate program transitions? (National Student Clearinghouse) • Job/Practice outcomes? (long term) • Is there a sweet spot for time spent with students? -Hours of activity related to outcomes (Logistic regression analysis)

  25. Please Document Clearly, Collaborate, and Share Data Wherever Possible (Image: mental_floss©)

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