Teaching

Shasta Community Health Center’s Teaching & Training Affiliations

Shasta Community Health Center is very proud to be associated with many of the region’s and state’s finest teaching and training institutions and organizations. SCHC’s mission includes a strong emphasis on teaching, training and education as a way of both helping with recruitment and retention, providing additional access to care and as a way of keeping the quality of care of our organization at a very high level. The growth in our affiliation relationships is a testimony to the high quality of our medical, dental, behavioral faculty and support staff and our clear mission of caring for the disadvantaged in the communities we serve.

Mercy Family Practice Residency Program

The Mercy Family Practice Residency Program is a fully accredited three year continuity training program based through Mercy Hospital – Redding (a CHW affiliate) with outpatient services located at the Residency’s own clinic site in Redding. The Mercy Residency program presently sponsors 18 family practice residents (6-6-6). The residents typically do “community” rotations, including a concentrated pediatric rotation, along with sub-specialty rotations that bring them into Shasta Community Health Center’s programs. From 1996 – summer of 2004, Shasta Community Health Center had its own Community Health Center track (of the Mercy Residency Program) that at one time sponsored continuity training for up to 9 residents (3-3-3). At the direction of Mercy Hospital Redding, the SCHC-track was closed effective July 1, 2004. While in existence, SCHC was responsible for matching, training and placing the graduates of its training track program in various medically underserved communities including those served by Community Health Centers, Indian and Alaskan Native Centers and Rural Health Clinics in various parts of mostly the Western United States. SCHC’s clinicians are part of the Mercy faculty for inpatient work and for the provision of an extensive pediatric training experience (both outpatient and inpatient). It is with great pride that 100% of those who have come through the SCHC-CHC track program have gone to practice in these areas for these organizations. While we greatly regret this decision, we look forward to future opportunities in helping to train and place family practice residents who have a strong interest in a career serving traditionally underserved populations and encourage medical students interested in a career in Family Practice Medicine to contact the Mercy-Redding program for more information.

Contact Information: Prospective Family Practice Residents

Director’s Name: Duane Bland, MD
Phone: (530)225-6090
Fax: (530)225-6093
Website: http://www.redding.mercy.org
Email: pbell@chw.edu

American Academy of Family Practice

http://www.aafp.org

University of California, Davis – Rural PRIME Program

Shasta Community Health Center (SCHC) is proud to be a participant in the University of California’s “PRograms In Medical Education” or PRIME, which is designed to produce physician leaders who are trained in and committed to helping California’s underserved communities. SCHC as an academic partner with the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, and its PRIME focus on finding and training the best and the brightest medical students for a fulfilling career in a rural medicine, is ideally suited to providing an exceptional rural outpatient experience in pediatrics and general primary care. Shasta CHC, with its core of exceptional pediatricians, family physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants serving nearly a quarter of the population of Shasta County, offers the UCD PRIME medical student an outstanding experience, exposing them to demanding pathology, combined with psycho-social challenges often found in rural communities where the primary care clinician plays an even greater critical role in helping patients manage their health. Shasta CHC also offers a wide array of other potential experiences including outreach to the homeless. Under a stable and experienced medical staff, the Rural-PRIME medical student will be challenged and supported helping to prepare them for a rewarding career in rural based primary care medicine. To learn more about the UCD Rural – PRIME program please go to: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mdprogram/rural_prime/about.html

Training of Medical Students, Family Nurse Practitioners Students, Physician Assistants Students, Pre-Medical Students

On a case by case basis, Shasta Community Health Center sponsors students at various levels of the health professions spectrum, from medical FNP-PA students through to early pipeline programs at the high-school level primarily through the local high-school R.O.P. programs (see below). Inquiries can be made through SCHC’s Administration, or through:

SCHC Chief Medical Officers
Dr. Ann Murphy and Dr. Patty Sand
Shasta Community Health Center
1035 Placer Street
Redding, CA. 96001

Email: amurphy@shastahealth.org or psand@shastahealth.org

Shasta-Trinity Regional Occupational Program (ROP-High School) vocational training and career counseling

Shasta Community Health Center works with the Shasta-Trinity ROP as a means to support the pipeline of students interested in healthcare careers. Many of these high-school and adult students enter into the health care field with several hired, over time, with Shasta Community Health Center. More information on this program can be obtained through the following:

ROP
4659 Eastside Road Redding, CA
Phone: 530-246-3302
Fax: 530-246-3306
For Medical Course registration please contact Medical Careers at 530-246-6066

UCSF Senior Dental Students

Shasta Community Health Center has a working relationship with the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry. Senior dental students are able to sign up for a three week rotation whereby they work with SCHC’s dentists and experience life in our dental clinics and in the Redding/Anderson area in general. These rotations happen almost every month throughout the year and are coordinated by the UCSF School of Dentistry for their students. Shasta Community Health Center assists these students by providing living arrangements here in Redding. Please contact SCHC’s Dental Program, Director Franklin Pierce, DDS, (530- 246-5894) or go directly through to UCSF School of Dentistry at the web site below:

http://www.dentistry.ucsf.edu

Shasta College Dental Hygiene Program

Shasta Community Health Center was one of the original partners, along with the Northern California Dental Society, in helping to establish this school of dental hygiene based at Shasta College. The school and Shasta Community Health Center’s main dental clinic in Redding, share a floor of a commercial building where education and oral health services are provided. SCHC also provides clinical work experiences for the dental hygiene school. You can obtain more information about the Shasta College Dental Hygiene Program by going to their web page below or calling them at the number below:

http://www.3.shastacollege.edu
Phone: 530-245-7332

Shasta College Licensed Vocational Nurse Program

Shasta Community Health Center has a long standing relationship with the Shasta College LVN program. SCHC assists the college in the clinical experience of students and we have hired several students who have been through the program and have done some of their training at SCHC. You can obtain more information about the LVN program through the information below:

Shasta College Nursing Programs
Center for Human Development
11555 Old Oregon Trail
P.O. Box 49606
Redding, CA 96049-6006

Institute of Technology

Shasta Community Health Center has a long standing relationship with the Institute of Technology LVN-MA program. SCHC assists the college in the clinical experience and training externships of students. We regularly hire students who have been through the program and have done some of their training at SCHC. You can obtain more information about the Institute of Technology programs through the information below:

http://www.instituteoftech.info

Chico State Registered Nursing Program

Shasta Community Health Center has developed a linkage with the Chico State RN Program and provides some selective placement for students as part of their clinical training. For more information regarding Chico State’s Nursing Program, including their distance learning program, please contact them through the information provided by their web site below:

Director: Sherry D. Fox, R.N., Ph.D.
nurs@csuchico.edu
Phone: 530-898-5891
http://www.csuchico.edu

Work Experience Program (WEX)

Private Industry Council & Northern Valley Catholic Social Services Program and Shasta Community Health Center works closely with the SMART Center (Shasta Multi Agency Re-employment and Training) program and these other agencies in providing work experience opportunities for students/clients in the WEX program. Placement is typically at SCHC’s Dental Operation. Interested individuals should contact the Shasta Private Industry Council and/or SMART Center for more information.

Denise Carnaghe
1220 Sacramento St.
Redding, CA. 96001
Phone: 530-245-1574
cdenise@shastapic.com

Contact for the ROP Dental Assisting Program contact:

Shasta-Trinity Regional Occupational Program
Gail Enmark
4659 Eastside Rd.
Redding, CA. 96001
Phone: 530-246-3302
genmark@shastalink.k12.ca.us

Area Health Education Consortium – California

The California AHEC Program, a thirty year old organization of partnerships, brings together community and academic interests to improve access to health care and decrease health disparities. Each AHEC develops, with its partners, a population-based approach to health professions education with a special emphasis on community-based training.

Supported by HRSA grant #5U77HPO3015-05 and the state of California, the AHEC Program accomplishes its mission through a network of ten California AHEC centers, each located in an underserved area and affiliated with, but separate from a health professions school. Each AHEC is an independent organization located in the community and serves a specific region; each run by a community board of directors. Most centers have developed programs and resources in addition to the state and HRSA support provided by the AHEC program.

The goals of the California AHEC are to improve access to health care services by:

• Increasing community based training of health professions students in California.
• Increasing health workforce diversity
• Linking AHEC to community, academic and other partners.
• Expanding California AHEC to areas not presently served.

More information regarding other California AHECs can be obtained by visiting the following web site:

http://www.cal-ahec.org