How to Become a MAPP Student

General Information

As of January 1, 2002, MAPP discontinued new student enrollment. At that date, there were 202 cumulative MAPP students and 70 MAPP graduates.

The MAPP Partner Education Institutions are continuing their Nurse Practitioner (NP), Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) and Physician Assistant (PA) programs. Click on the links to the MAPP Education Partner Institutions to get information on their programs and how to apply to them.

Since MAPP began, in 1997, distance learning, cooperatively online web-based learning, has grown and changed enormously. It is now possible to be a "homegrown" student at a number of MAPP partner institutions, that is, remain in your community while completing online all, or most, of your advanced practice masters level education and training.

Also, a number of MAPP partner schools have adapted the MAPP goals as their own, and are committed to the rural and urban underserved areas of Colorado, Wyoming and the bordering states.

The MAPP office will be available to respond to inquiries throughout 2002. The regional AHEC offices will also be available; and information can continue to be receive through the institutions' contacts and links identified on this web page.

To become a MAPP student, an individual must be accepted into a Nurse Practitioner (NP), Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) or Physician Assistant (PA) program offered by a MAPP Partner Education Institution.

In addition: A MAPP student must meet at least one of the following eligibility criteria:

lives, at the time of enrollment and/or during the education program, in a state or federally designated Medically Underserved Area (MUA) and/or Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA); (click here for HPSA/MUA definitions and map of Colorado, click here for HPSA information for your state)or,

works, at the time of enrollment and/or during the education program, in a health care position for an organization that is located in, or primarily serves clients in, a state or federally designated MUA and/or HPSA; or,

lives, at the time of enrollment and/or during the education program, in a county which the federal government has designated as rural or frontier;

or,works, at the time of enrollment and/or during the education program, in a health care position for an organization that is located in, or primarily serves clients in, a county which the federal government has designated as rural or frontier; or,

is a member of a federally defined minority* or lives or works in an historically disadvantaged area.**

* The federal categories for minority are: Black; Hispanic; Asian and Pacific Islander; American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut.

** The definition of 'historically disadvantaged' adopted by the Foundation for this project is: an area documented to have a poverty rate twice that of the federally defined poverty rate." (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Partnerships for Training Definitions, Application Instructions, Implementation Phase, Appendix H, pp. 35-37, 1996)

Also, MAPP students/learners, as a group, are expected to be culturally diverse, service-oriented, self-directed, working, adult lifelong learners and primary health care professionals who are able to tolerate some degree of ambiguity as the MAPP program is developed.

Students will use interactive video and computers for courses, clinical and individual study, while remaining in their local communities for most of their education/ training programs. MAPP makes arrangements for computers and software to be available to MAPP students, faculty, selected preceptors, and clinical sites in Colorado, Wyoming and the bordering states.

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The Three Steps to Becoming a MAPP Student

NOTICE

As of December 31, 2001 MAPP is no longer accepting new MAPP Students. To obtain information about distance learning opportunities for students who wish to become and NP, CNM or PA, please contact a MAPP partner institution directly. Click on the institutions' web pages, found at MAPP Education Institutions Partners. Click on MAPP Contact Information to contact a regional AHEC office.

The MAPP office will be available to respond to inquiries throughout 2002. Contact information follows in this section.

Step 1
The prospective MAPP student completes Part I of the MAPP Nomination Form, and sends the form to the appropriate location (see below). Part II of the MAPP Nomination Form is completed by a Nominator and sent to the appropriate location. Eligibility for MAPP is determined by the MAPP Office.

Step 2
The prospective MAPP student applies directly to the MAPP Partner education program(s) of their choice.

Step 3
If the prospective MAPP student meets the MAPP eligibility criteria (see above) and is accepted into a MAPP Partner Education Institution program, he/she then becomes a MAPP student. (Note: Applicants may wish to take a few courses as Special Students prior to being formerly accepted into a program.)

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