About Health Careers Promotion

      The goal of Brazos AHEC Health Careers Promotion is to recruit under-represented and disadvantaged individuals, and prepare them for health professions education by providing health career awareness activities. The Health Careers Promotion division of the Brazos AHEC provides career decision makers with information about health careers training and opportunities. Students are encouraged to seek their education and placement in rural and medically underserved communities in Central Texas. Information available for both students (K-12) and career-changing adults.

                          Sample Activities

• Providing classroom presentations about health careers

• Facilitating after-school science programs

• Participation in career fairs

• Offering programs that enhance employability skills

• Designing and implementing mentoring programs

• Providing financial aid information and services

• Maintaining and disseminating college, university, and technical school information

• Distributing HOT Jobs, a catalog of health careers

• Administering career aptitude and interest tests

• Providing speakers from a particular health field or from surrounding college health programs

• Organizing health care-related field trips

• Organizing summer camps for students interested in health careers