This week’s ArkansasHealthCareers.com video is a profile of Lorraine Frierson. She is the Clinical Lab Director at AHEC South Arkansas in El Dorado, AR. In the video she tells us all about working in a clinical laboratory.

The Medical Lab Technicians and other lab staff are responsible for obtaining a variety of body fluid samples, analyzing those samples, and delivering results to physicians and nurses. As Lorraine sees it, the lab staff members serve as critical liaisons between patients and healthcare providers. Without accurate testing of body fluids, a physician cannot properly di…

Simply put, an AHEC is an Area Health Education Center. There are AHECs all over the country. According to their facebook page, their purpose is, “Connecting Students to Careers – Professionals to Communities – and Communities to Better Health.” This website is an outreach project of the Arkansas AHECs.

We just produced a new video, which you can see below, explaining exactly what the Arkansas AHECs do. As you’ll find out, they exist primarily to decentralize medical education in Arkansas, but they do so much more than that. Be sure to Check it Out!

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The first webisode in our series The Training Grounds has been released! The Training Grounds is all about profiling professional training programs for health-related careers in Arkansas.

This webisode takes a look at the Family Practice Residency Program at AHEC Pine Bluff through the eyes of two residents there. AHEC Pine Bluff is located at 4010 South Mulberry in Pine Bluff, AR, adjacent to Jefferson Regional Medical Center. If you are interested in more info about the residency program, you can contact Susan Over. She is the residency coordinator there. You can call her at 1-800-395-6…