The Vermont AHEC Network

“Connecting Student to Careers, Professionals to Communities, and Communities to Better Health.”

VT AHEC is a statewide network of academic and community partners (UVM Larner College of Medicine AHEC Program in Burlington, Northern VT AHEC in St. Johnsbury, and Southern VT AHEC in Springfield) working together to increase the supply, geographic distribution, and education of Vermont’s health workforce. The overarching aim of VT AHEC is to provide statewide health workforce development programs that support an appropriate, current and future, health workforce so that all Vermonters have access to quality health care.

VT AHEC works across the health workforce pipeline from middle school students to practicing health professionals. This work includes:

  • health careers awareness, exploration, and preparation programs for youth
  • support for medical student clinical rotations
  • mentoring community-based projects for students
  • opportunities for health professions students to increase knowledge, strengthen leadership skills, and gain competencies (e.g., AHEC Scholars)
  • workforce recruitment and retention initiatives (e.g., incentive scholarships, educational loan repayment programs, physician recruitment and placement services)
  • continuing education and quality improvement initiatives for health professionals

In July 2024 to June 2025, VT AHEC

  • provided continuing education to 2,382 health professionals
  • generated more than 6,638 middle/high school and undergraduate student connections (82% outside Chittenden county)
  • supported 71 health professions student clinical rotations (63% outside UVMMC sites)
  • engaged 248 medical students in the AHEC Scholars Program
  • facilitated 7 new physician placements into the Vermont workforce
  • processed 376 applications to the Vermont Educational Loan Repayment Program for Healthcare Professionals and disbursed $835,080 to reduce educational debt

For more information about services available in your community, visit:  the Southern Vermont AHEC at svtahec.org; the Northern Vermont AHEC at nvtahec.org; or the UVM AHEC Program at vtahec.org.

VT AHEC Rural Health Care Pipeline
VT AHEC Health Care Pipeline By the Numbers