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Welcome

The Yankton Rural AHEC works to improve the supply and distribution of healthcare professionals in South Dakota. Find educational support for all levels of learning including elementary to professional practice.
Learn MoreREHPS

Rural Experiences for Health Professions Students is currently recruiting students for the Summer of 2018. Thirty healthcare students will be placed in 15 communities across South Dakota to experience rural healthcare. Click on the REHPS banner to view the 2017 student blogs!
Learn MoreCNA Training for HS

CNA CTE training for high school students is currently underway. For more information about CNA CTE training in your area or to learn about how to become involved, please call 605-655-8290.
Learn MoreScrubs Camp

Yankton Rural AHEC hosted 70 students on October 4th, 2017 at the Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Professional Office Pavilion in Yankton, SD. Please contact Corryn Celmer, Yankton Scrubs Camp Coordinator, with questions at 605-655-8290 or info@yrahec.org
Learn MoreDisaster Training Day

Each year, Disaster Training Day brings together 12 disciplines of healthcare students from USD, SDSU and most recently Mount Marty College and the University of Sioux Falls. The day focuses on topics, terminology, processes, and procedures that will help students be prepared should they be called upon in a disaster. For more information, contact Yankton Rural AHEC.
Learn MoreContinuing Education

Watch the Yankton Rural AHEC website to learn more about on-going continuing education opportunities. Throughout the year, YRAHEC offers online education and conferences. Come back often.
Learn MoreIn A Box

In-A-Box learning toolkits, developed by the Oregon Area Health Education Center, are made available to South Dakota classrooms by YRAHEC. Your students can learn more about the eye, ear, brain, bone & muscles and guts. More have been added recently!
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About SD AHEC
The South Dakota Area Health Education Center (SD AHEC) has a mission to "connect students to careers, professionals to communities, and communities to better health." Established in 2009 through a HRSA grant awarded to the Sanford School of Medicine, the statewide program currently has two centers, the Yankton Rural AHEC and the Northeast AHEC.-
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