2005 Medical Student Community Leadership Grants
UC Irvine - Victims of Violence
Victims of Violence is a student-run community service project
designed to counsel, comfort, and address the special needs of
pregnant women who have been victims of domestic violence. The
medical students will be trained on the medical and social implications rising from violence on pregnant women. Medical Students will be paired with a patient at the hospitals affiliated with UCI, including UCI Medical Center and Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Students will be responsible for interacting with patients and their doctors and social workers to learn about the goals and process of social work, resources available for domestic violence victims and their children, the medical implication behind individual diagnoses, general management of OB patients, and the unique problems in mother-child treatment domestic violence creates.
UC San Diego - Health Professions Career Panel
UC San Diego APAMSA Chapter held a question/answer session featuring
a panel of current students and recent graduates from the fields of
medicine, public health, nursing, and pharmacy to expose community
college students to a variety of potential healthcare careers. This
event was held at the Southwestern Community College in Chula Vista
which has an ethnically diverse student body, with significant enrollment
of students from groups that are underrepresented.
UCI - AMA Smoking Prevention Program
The UC Irvine Chapter of the American Medical Association has
developed an educational curriculum targeting elementary and
middle school schools in Orange County on the dangers of smoking.
The program consists of short lectures about the harmful effects
of smoking, interactive sections in which elementary students will
use props such as straws to breathe through to simulate the breathing
problems associated with smoking, molasses to simulate the tar found in
cigarettes, and real smoking ads for the students to analyze the misleading
messages behind the ad. The children will have the opportunity to
participate in a poster contest illustrating the positive effects of living tobacco-free.
Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance (SUMMA)
SUMMA will be hosting the 14th Annual Premedical Student Conference to
encourage and help Chicano/Latino, Native American, and African-American
premedical students to pursue careers in medicine by exposing them to the
many exciting opportunities available to medical students and physicians.
Through workshops and mock interviews the participants will be introduced
to the medical school application and interview processes.
Alhambra High School's Math, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA)
USC Medical School's Chapter of the Asian Pacific American Medical
Student Association (APAMSA) in partnership with Alhambra High School's Math,
Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) Program continues its mentoring
program. Each year, an average of 40 enthusiastic and responsible medical
students are paired with approximately 60 MESA students. The Alhambra High
School Mentoring Program motivates high school students to seek positive
role models and demonstrates the importance of community involvement. The
mentorship has also created opportunities for medical students to serve and
make a difference in the lives of young people. This program has built strong,
continuing relationships. The mentors in the program have consistently shown
meaningful dedication to the welfare of their mentees and the mentees have
responded in the ways they approach higher education and the roles they play in society.
UCI Southern California EMIG Conference, 2005
The UCI Emergency Medicine Interest Group (EMIG) held a conference to
prepare physicians and future physicians for the challenge that natural
disasters, terrorist attacks, and nuclear weapons presents. The focused
training was on the education of medical students regarding the various
forms and mechanisms of natural and man-made mass disasters; the proper
methodology and execution of medical therapies appropriate to disaster
situations; and the safety of physicians when treating victims who may
have been exposed to a chemical or biological threat. Students were exposed
to the field of emergency medicine through lectures and hand-on simulations
on topics such as Field Triage and Assessment, Biological and Chemical
Exposures, Sarin Gas Case Study, and more.
Loma Linda University - Project HOPE
Project HOPE is a mentoring program that pairs Loma Linda University students
with pregnant and parenting teens in the San Bernardino City Unified School
District. The project seeks to educate young women about healthy pregnancies
( including proper nutrition), teach them parenting skills, help them develop
long-term goals, and provide them with role models. Once a week medical
students go into classrooms dedicated to pregnant/parenting teens in the
city of San Bernardino to give presentations and help the teens with
curriculum and craft projects. These help the young moms think about their
own lives and the decisions they will face as parents and as they become adults.
The teens involved have the opportunity to learn important life skills and
spend time with positive role models.
Loma Linda University - Special Opportunities
This project serves two functions - provide troubled teens with positive
role models and to build a powerful bond between medical students and their
community. Loma Linda University medical students will team up with some
of San Bernardino’s troubled high school freshman boys, targeted by the
school district. The project seeks to guide young men and teach them the
skills they will need if they are to succeed. The medical students will
gain valuable experience working with at-risk populations and have the
opportunity to give back to the local community. The teens involved have the
opportunity to learn important like skills and spend time with positive role models.
USC- Hepatitis B Task Force
The goal of this project is to raise awareness among Asian Pacific Islanders of the importance
of being tested for hepatitis B, being vaccinated if unprotected and being monitored if infected
with chronic hepatitis B; and to improve the percentage rate of Asian Pacific Islander adults who
have been screened for hepatitis B and vaccinated and provide information for follow-up medical care.
They will target temples and churches with a high percentage of recent immigrants from Asia/Pacific
Islands, as well as community health fairs to do HBV screenings. There will be educational brochures
from the Asian Liver Center for distribution.
USC - Educacion Primero
A mentoring program for fourth and fifth graders in East Los Angeles put on by the USC Latino
Medical Student Association. Every month a group of about ten first and second year medical
students go to Eastman Avenue Elementary School for about one hour and lead a group of 66 fourth
and fifth graders in fun medical science activities. The last session is an all day field trip
to the UCS campus. By working with the children every month, the medical students communicate to
the children the importance of education and learn about diseases such as diabetes, heart disease
and antibiotic resistance. This program gets the medical students involved in their community, feel competent in presenting medical information, and discover that a small amount of invested time can
hold large rewards.
USC - Tom Bradley Mini-Medical School
The Student National Medical Association chapter at the USC Keck School of Medicine developed a
Mini-Medical school program involving mentoring and teaching four Fourth grader classrooms at Tom
Bradley Elementary School in South Los Angeles. The goal of the medical students is to expose the Fourth graders to minority medical students, as well as scientific information in the hope of sparking interest in medicine and advanced education. Once a month 20 medical students teach a lesion that involves lecture, active learning and experimentation. The students are given a homework assignment at the completion of each session that involves teaching their parents what they learned. The subjects are nutrition, the disease process and antibiotic resistance, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, heart anatomy, heart attacks, and high blood pressure. At the end of the year, the children take a field trip to USC. A Family Health Fair is also planned to get the whole family involved and educate them on health issues.
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