Join us for HealthMATCH 2011 in El Paso, Texas! Thursday, March 31, 2011

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1 Join us for HealthMATCH 2011 in! Bringing together communities and clinicians to explore practice opportunities. Enclosed is the Community Registration/Information Form for HealthMATCH 2011 scheduled for March 31, 2011 at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in for TTUHSC residents, medical students, and nursing students. The purpose of HealthMATCH is to provide West Texas communities and residents and student clinicians at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center a forum to interact and discuss practice opportunities. Through the many contacts made between communities needing providers and residents and student clinicians looking for a practice location several relationships have formed. This is a great opportunity to talk with residents, medical students and nursing students about your community, your hospital/clinic, group practice and the need you may have for specific doctors and nurses. At this time, there are approximately 197 residents in the following specialties: 45 in Internal Medicine, 15 in OB/GYN, 40 in Pediatrics, 24 in Family Medicine, 29 in Emergency Medicine, 13 in Psychiatry, 9 in Radiology, 18 in Surgery, and 4 Transitional who have been invited to participate in HealthMATCH There will be 175 medical students invited as well that have not decided on a specialty. These students would be ideal candidates for your future needs a few years down the road. Furthermore, 66 nursing students have been asked to participate. If you would like to participate, please complete the enclosed Community Registration/ Information Form and return it to: Borderland AHEC, Marci Brooks Daniels, TTUHSC, 5001 El Paso Dr., Archer Building, Rm 11H02, El Paso, TX 79905, or you may the information to marci.daniels@ttuhsc.edu by March 11, If you have any additional information you would like to include about your practice site or the community, please feel free to notate or send it. We will provide a manual containing brief information about each community to the residents, medical students, and nursing students who attend the event. Please refer to additional information attached for agenda, time of event and driving directions. There will be a community breakfast prior to the event followed by a brief welcome introducing the communities that are present. The residents, medical and nursing students will then have the opportunity to talk with you one-on-one at your exhibit table. If you have questions please contact Marci Brooks Daniels at or by at marci.daniels@ttuhsc.edu. We look forward to receiving your registration and seeing you at HealthMATCH 2011! 5001 El Paso Dr., Archer Bldg., Rm 11H A service of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

2 9:00 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine The purpose of HealthMATCH 2011 is to provide West Texas communities, medical residents, medical students, and nursing students at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center a forum to interact and discuss practice opportunities. HealthMATCH is patterned after the Texas Department of Rural Affairs annual HealthFIND event, which is held each year in various Texas locations. Many of the residents and students at TTUHSC have been unable to participate in HealthFIND due to travel limitations. The West Texas Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program and Borderland AHEC are pleased to sponsor this community-health professional matching event in collaboration with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine Hispanic Centers of Excellence, at. This event is not intended to replace HealthFIND for our residents, medical and nursing students or rural communities in West Texas, but it is intended to be an additional resource for communities seeking providers and medical residents and nursing students seeking practice opportunities and to inform students about future opportunities. The HealthMATCH 2011 event will be held in the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Medical Education Building in. At this time, there are approximately 197 residents who have been invited to participate in HealthMATCH There will be 175 medical students invited as well that have not decided on a specialty and 66 nursing students. Every student/resident will receive a manual containing brief information about each participant/ community attending the event. Agenda 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Welcome Breakfast for Communities with Dr. De La Rosa, Founding Dean, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine 10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Table/Exhibit setup and lunch. Includes one 8 ft. table with 2 chair(s) 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon Welcome. 12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m. Lunch with residents and medical students. 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Table/Exhibit visits. Opportunity for one-on-one interaction with interested residents and medical students. 2:35 p.m. Take down exhibit. Registration To participate in HealthMATCH 2011, please complete the enclosed Community Registration/ Information Form and return it to Marci Brooks Daniels at Borderland AHEC, 5001 El Paso Dr., Archer Building, Rm 11H02, El Paso, TX or marci.daniels@ttuhsc.edu by March 11, For questions, call Ms. Daniels at or her at the address listed above. Special Note: If you are unable to attend in person you can send your registration/ information form back to be placed in the student/resident manual. You can also send (mail) brochures about your facility or business, a job description, etc. to be set out on a table the day of the event.

3 9:00 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine Day of Event The HealthMATCH event will be held at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Medical Education Building, located at 5001 El Paso Drive in. Visitor parking is located in front of the main entrance to the building. See below for driving instructions. Audio Visual The Borderland AHEC will have available a laptop computer and projector for your use. The laptop will play CD s and DVD s, and has USB ports for a thumb drive. Please let me know if you need other audio visual support and if you need electricity for your table display. DIRECTIONS/PARKING AND HOTEL INFORMATION Directions: To the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine 5001 El Paso Dr. El Paso, TX Traveling West on I-10: I-10 West Exit Raynolds Street (Medical Center of the Americas) Turn left onto Raynolds Street Turn left onto Alameda Avenue Veer left onto El Paso Drive Turn left into parking lot of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at 5001 El Paso Drive. Traveling East on I-10: I-10 East Exit Raynolds Street (Medical Center of the Americas) Turn right on Raynolds Street Turn left onto Alameda Avenue Veer left onto El Paso Drive Turn left into parking lot of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at 5001 El Paso Drive. You may park in the visitor s parking, which is located in front of the main entrance of the Medical Education Building. As you enter the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Borderland AHEC staff will be there to greet and direct you. Nearby Hotels: Camino Real Double Tree Holiday Inn Express Hilton Garden Inn 101 S. El Paso St. 600 S. El Paso St. 409 E. Missouri Ave. 111 West University Ave. (915) (915) (915) (915) doubletree1@hilton.com hiltongardeninn@hilton.com/elpaso

4 Community Registration/Information Form Community Name: _ Address: City: State: Zip: County: Contact Person at organization address for pre-event correspondence: (NOTE - You will receive an * Registration CONFIRMATION when forms are received by Borderland AHEC) Name: Phone: Title: * Number of people from organization/community attending event: Names of people attending (up to 3): Practice Opportunity Contact Information Please provide information for the primary person to contact for information concerning practice opportunities. Organization: Name: Title: Work phone: Fax number: Mailing address: City: State: Zip: County: address: Practice Opportunity Information The practice opportunity requires a: Physician(s): # Specialty: Physician Assistant(s): # Specialty: Nurse(s): # Specialty: Other: # Specialty: The practice opportunity is: Full-time Part-time Temporary/Locum Tenens Number of licensed, practicing health care professionals in the practice community:

5 Community Registration/Information Form Is there a hospital located in the practice opportunity community? Yes No Hospital Size: under 30 beds beds beds beds beds over 150 beds Hospital Statistics: The hospital has an Emergency Room (ER)? Yes No Is the ER coverage available 24 hours? Yes No The population of the practice opportunity service area is The name of the county(ies) of the practice opportunity service area are: The practice opportunity is located in a: Health Professional Shortage Area: Medically Underserved Area: Yes No I don t know Yes No I don t know Recreation: Hunting Country Club (golf/tennis) Fishing Lakes/rivers Restaurants # Theaters Shopping centers w/national chain stores miles away Newspaper: Daily Weekly Bi-weekly Local Internet Provider Cable TV Misc. Services: Schools: Airport w/national connection miles away Police Dept Fire dept EMS Services State-licensed daycare Name of major retail stores in the community (ex: Walmart): Public: # of students in school district Private: # of students in school district Student/teacher ratio Name, city and distance to nearest junior college(s) or university The community will provide financial assistance to a health care professional student on the condition that she/he will practice in our community upon completion of their training. Yes No