Caring for Community - Previous Grant Recipients

May 2002

		Grants and Awards Home Abraham Flexner Award Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award Award for Distinguished Research David E. Rogers Award Herbert W. Nickens Award Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowships Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarships Humanism in Medicine Award Outstanding Community Service Award Caring for Community - A National Medical Student Service Project

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine - "Mobile Clinic"
Medical students providing regularly scheduled on-site health care to underserved areas in Iowa City and the surrounding community through the use of a mobile trailer of medical supplies and health education materials. (new project grant)

Weill Medical College of Cornell University - "Camp Phoenix"
Camp Phoenix, a pediatric burn survivor camp run by medical students, provides a safe and nurturing environment for children who are burn survivors, with the ultimate goals of both helping to improve their self-esteem as well as providing normalcy to their outlook on life. (supplemental project grant)

Duke University - "Healthy Transitions"
Medical students at Duke, in collaboration with both public health students at UNC and the North Carolina Corrections Institute for Women, working with women in prison. Through information sharing and open dialogue, Healthy Transitions should both empower these women to make informed decisions about their bodies and encourage them to use resources offered in prison rehab. (non-continuous grant)

Loma Linda University - "Healthy Neighborhoods Project"
The Healthy Neighborhoods Project promotes health awareness through a variety of events, including a health fair, a 5K and 10K run, plus "Community Kids Connection", a student initiated mentoring program for at-risk children in the San Bernardino area. (supplemental project grant)

Tufts University - "The Sharewood Project"
The Sharewood Project provides a range of services from basic and urgent medical care to HIV, hepatitis B, and nutritional counseling for the underserved population in the Boston area, and includes a referral system for patients to Malden and other local cities surrounding Boston. (supplemental project grant)

Utah - "Utah Rural Outreach Program"
The Utah Rural Outreach Program (UROP), a program operated by medical students at Utah, is designed to address the issue of disproportionately low numbers of health care providers in rural and frontier Utah. Medical students from Utah visit high schools in rural and frontier Utah in an attempt to increase awareness and interest in professional careers and education. (new project grant)

Vanderbilt - "Project OASIS"
Project OASIS - Caring for Teens in Crisis, is a collaborative project of medical students from both Vanderbilt and Meharry designed to provide homeless teens in Nashville with medical information and support about sexually transmitted and other diseases. (new projects grant)

Wake Forest - "Share the Health"
Share the Health is an annual health fair sponsored by medical students at Wake Forest. It is designed to encourage the medically underserved to become active participants in their own health care, and to empower them to do so by teaching them about community health resources and strategies for disease prevention. (supplemental project grant)

Washington University of St. Louis - "Childhood Lead Poison Testing"
Student groups at the Washington University SOM hold numerous health fairs throughout the year, and will now add testing for lead poisoning for low-income high risk populations to other health screenings available at their fairs. (new project grant)