The Mountain Area Health Education Center's (MAHEC's) Continuing Education programs are designed to meet the education and training needs of health and human service professionals in medicine, nursing, dental, mental health, pharmacotherapy, allied health, and public health. We are the largest provider of continuing education in the region, serving more than 8,000 healthcare professionals each year. Customized training programs can be designed to meet the needs of individual organizations and agencies and can be delivered on site. In addition to continuing education opportunities, MAHEC educates third and fourth-year medical students at its UNC School of Medicine Asheville Campus. MAHEC also runs accredited residency programs in family medicine, ob/gyn, general dentistry, pharmacotherapy, psychiatry, and surgery, as well as post-residency fellowship programs in sports medicine and hospice/palliative care. MAHEC is also the future home of the UNC Asheville/UNC Gillings School of Public Health. MAHEC provides patient care at six Family Health Centers across the region and Ob/Gyn Specialists and the Dental Health Center, which are both located at its Biltmore campus in Asheville, NC. MAHEC is part of the North Carolina AHEC system, one of the oldest and most extensive AHEC systems in the country. The NC AHEC Program evolved in an effort to address national and state concerns with the supply, distribution, retention and quality of health professionals.
