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Community Service Activities - ResidentsCross Cultural Community Medicine RotationAll second year residents participated in a cross-cultural community medicine rotation at St. John's Health Center . The goal of the rotation is to encourage residents to practice in medically underserved urban areas by offering a rewarding learning experience that enhances their skills in providing culturally sensitive, community-oriented primary care to a diverse and indigent population. Residents learned about different multicultural populations and became familiar with managing clinical issues prevalent in the community (e.g. lead poisoning, immunizations, TB exposure, HIV, substance use, health problems exacerbated by poverty and homelessness). They participated in community-based health care activities including seeing patients at a child health conference, a pap/mammogram screening, and volunteering at a local soup kitchen. Community site visits included the Middlesex County Board of Social Services, a homeless shelter, a Botanica and Bodega, and accompanying St. John's prenatal and immunization outreach workers on home visits. In addition, residents conducted community presentations at the Ozanam Men's Homeless Shelter and Naomi's Way-a transitional housing facility for women and their children. Presentation topics included: personal hygiene, nutrition, and respiratory illnesses. Residents also participated in community-based activities such as school physicals, health fairs, pap/mammogram screenings, prostate cancer screenings, and community presentations, as part of their longitudinal community medicine experience. The month-long rotation is coordinated by Dr. Steven Levin and Ms. Jan Gottlieb, MPH. All residents (first through third year) and many faculty members provide other educational and clinical care services to local communities. New Brunswick Family Medicine Residency Program
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Community Affiliation |
Service |
Middlesex County Department of Public Health and the American Cancer Society |
Free health fairs for uninsured citizens |
Chandler Health Center , New Brunswick |
Provide prenatal care and deliveries for the communities underinsured population |
Edison Township Health Department |
For women provide screenings for breast cancer and uterine cancer and for men provide screenings for prostate cancer. |
Elijah's Promise Soup Kitchen, New Brunswick |
Provide "triage" health assessments for clients of the soup kitchen and if necessary arrange appointments for clients at St. John's Health Center , New Brunswick . |
Geriatric home visits |
Provide medical care to home bound patients in the local New Brunswick area |
Jewish Renaissance Medical Center , Perth Amboy |
In women provide screenings for breast cancer and uterine cancer and in men provide screenings for prostate cancer. |
Naomi's Way, Catholic Charities, New Brunswick |
Give presentations on preventive health care |
OldBridge Township Elementary, Middle, and High Schools |
Conduct school physicals and sports physicals |
Ozanam Family Shelter, Edison |
Give presentations on preventive health care |
Ozanam Men's Homeless Shelter, Catholic Charities, New Brunswick |
Give presentations on preventive health care |
Parking Nursing Home, Piscataway and New Brunswick |
Provide continuing education on medically related topics to nurses and staff |
Read Across America |
Read books to local elementary and middle school students |
Special Olympics |
Team doctors |
St. John's Health Center , New Brunswick |
Provide clinical care to indigent population |
Tar Wars -- sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians |
Organized antismoking presentations to local 4th and 5th graders |
Trinity Health Center , Perth Amboy |
Provide clinical care to indigent population |
Women's Health Center , Somerville |
Provide women's clinical health services |
Woodbridge Township Health Department |
In women provide screenings for breast cancer and uterine cancer and in men provide screenings for prostate cancer. |
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