AAMC Medicine in the Community Grant Program

May 2002 Grant Recipients Sponsored by Pfizer Inc.

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)

University of Utah School of Medicine: 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 University: 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 University School of Medicine: 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)