AAMC Caring for Community Grant Program
May 2005 Grant Recipients Sponsored by Pfizer Inc.
Baylor College of Medicine: Houston Outreach Medicine, Education,
and Social Services (HOMES)
HOMES is an interdisciplinary, student-run, free clinic for the
homeless, founded by several of the city's higher education institutions.
More than 200 students from area health professions schools provide
primary care and social services to the clinic's homeless patients.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: Columbia
Student Medical Outreach (CoSMO)
Through this grant, students plan to improve access to primary care
and preventive medical care for uninsured residents of the community
by continuing to operate a free clinic on Saturday mornings.
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans:
Student Run Homeless Clinics
For 10 years the Student Run Homeless Clinics-an adult clinic, an
ob/gyn clinic, and a pediatric clinic-have provided primary care
and disease screening to thousands of city residents who are homeless.
This grant will allow them to provide new services, such as same
day prescriptions, free over-the-counter medications, more accessible
HIV screening, and bus tokens for patients without transportation.
University at Buffalo, State University of New York School of
Medicine and Biological Sciences: Providing Care to Buffalo's East
Side Community
Funding for this project will cover the costs of prescribed medications
and flu/pneumonia vaccines for uninsured and low-income patients
who seek care at the student-run Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic.
University of Massachusetts Medical School: Marrow for Tomorrow
Students will educate, promote, and recruit minority residents of
Worcester for bone marrow registries through presentations to high
school students, multi-lingual videos, and strategic collaborations
with community health centers.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School: Promise Clinic
Students at this primary care clinic, located in New Brunswick,
serve the medical needs of the clients of a nearby soup kitchen
and work with other health professionals and community coalitions
to provide much needed social services.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine: ESL Health Literacy
Program
Students will work to improve the health literacy of the Somali
Bantu refugees living in Pittsburgh, most of whom are illiterate
in their rarely spoken native language and cannot communicate with
the few translators available. Through health education workshops
and materials, students will teach the refugees to develop health
"survival skills" and healthy behaviors, and will orient them to
the city's health care system.
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry: UR
Well Free Health Center
UR Well is a student-run community clinic that provides medical
care one night a week for the city's uninsured residents.
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