{"id":186,"date":"2016-05-11T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/?p=186"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:41:29","slug":"ahip-application-support-a-post-from-ncnmlg-professional-development-grant-awardee-michelle-rachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"AHIP Application Support: A Post from NCNMLG Professional Development Grant awardee Michelle Rachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I applied to MLA\u2019s AHIP program this week thanks to a professional development grant I received from NCNMLG. I applied at the Provisional level and I\u2019m looking forward to completing the requirements for the Member level. I feel this is an excellent opportunity for me to increase my skills in medical librarianship. When I started working in a medical library in 2009 I was hired as paraprofessional staff, eager to become a full-fledged librarian (I already had my MLIS). I did get promoted to a faculty position early in 2013 but I was still not a medical or health sciences librarian. Even so I was very interested in joining MLA and becoming a part of AHIP.  Finally in August of 2013 I became the Health Sciences Librarian at the main library on our campus, University of Nevada, Reno. I became a member of MLA and NCNMLG but couldn\u2019t afford the tuition for the AHIP program so I feel really fortunate to be able to finally join. Thank you NCNMLG for your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I applied to MLA\u2019s AHIP program this week thanks to a professional development grant I received from NCNMLG. I applied at the Provisional level and I\u2019m looking forward to completing the requirements for the Member level. I feel this is an excellent opportunity for me to increase my skills in medical librarianship. When I started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}