Community Health Educating InternAt — Rapha Acupuncture, Inc.

·         Represents Rapha Acupuncture and provides community outreach logistics in health and resource fairs, screenings, and demonstrations to raise public awareness of Oriental medicine and acupuncture.

·         Collaborates with community agencies and corporations to coordinate, advice, implement and advance population specific and culturally sensitive health education programs under the principle of Oriental medicine and acupuncture.

·         Coordinates and facilitates educational seminars to current patients and local communities to promote the idea of holistic health.

·         Achieves seminar attendance goals by featuring the benefits of continuing designs for health education programs.

·         Develops, disseminates and implements curricula and materials that encourage health decisions under very general supervision.

·         Defines, develops, and implements measures for evaluating interventions/health education activities. 
Synthesizes data and prepares activity report for supervisor. 

·         Serves as a trusted advisor in Oriental medicine and acupuncture education for targeted healthcare professionals.
Works closely with management giving insight and gaining knowledge of the staffs' and patients' educational needs.
Follows up prospective patients through phone call and emails for in-office visit.

·         Conducts media campaign through social media (Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Youtube and clinic website) to educate the public current development of Oriental medicine and acupuncture.

• Reach out to community agencies and corporations to set up wellness seminars by phone, email or visit
• Update patients’ directory list
• Follow up with current patients for wellbeing by phone or email
• Design health educational materials/seminars to educate the public
• Post on a regular basis on social media to raise awareness of health promotion and disease prevention

Training:

Initial general employer orientation
weekly scheduled one-on-one mentor meetings
job shadowing
provision of work samples
overview/contextualization of assigned tasks

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn the significance of Oriental medicine and acupuncture in healing, health promotion and disease prevention
• Effectively collaborate with community agencies and corporations regarding to health education program coordination and facilitation
• Develop, disseminate and implement health education programs fitting the needs of local community
• Conduct media campaign through social media (Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Youtube and website) to educate the public current development of Oriental medicine and acupuncture