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Prostate Cancer and Screening for African American men |
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Working with the American Cancer Society, students worked at a table at the African American Health fair at St. Mary’s Hospital educating people about epidemiology, etiology, risk factors, diagnosis, and follow-up involved in prostate cancer. Project targeted African American males |
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Developing an Urban Safety-Net Pharmacy: Implementation of Formative Program Evaluation |
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Outlines project that staffed St. Joseph’s Community center with University of Rochester Medical students. |
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Assessment of Compliance with Quality Guidelines for patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia Admitted to Strong Memorial Hospital |
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Project aimed at increasing the and years of healthy life among pneumonia patients by assessing if patients are getting antibiotic treatment within four hours. |
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Treating Alcoholism, The Strong Alcohol Withdrawal Protocol and the Oxford Houses of Rochester |
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Compliance with the Alcohol Withdrawal Guidelines for Strong Hospital were investigated via retrospective chart review |
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Occupational injury in Migrant Farm Workers: development of instructional materials for the clinician treating migrant farm workers |
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Project aimed at adding a back injury and dermatitis module to the NYCAMH. |
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Increasing Public Awareness of the Women’s health Partnership’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Program |
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Project aimed at improving awareness of colorectal cancer among people over 50 in the Monroe County, NY area by targeting churches, synagogues, and other places of worship. |
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Bone Marrow Drive |
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Student set up a bone marrow drive targeting medical and graduate students at the University of Rochester |
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Educate and Liberate: Independence for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
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Project aimed at educating future health-care providers to make them more cognizant and aware of the special needs of the blind and visually impaired with the ultimate goal of greater independence for the blind and visually impaired |
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Boy Scouts of America |
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Worked with the Boy Scouts of America at LDS church to promote a lifestyle that reduces at-risk behaviors among boy scouts |
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Hospital Preparedness: Decontamination |
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Rochester 4th Branch Health |
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Primary Prevention of Diabetes in Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers |
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Doyourproxy.org: An Online Tool to Promote the New York State Health Care Proxy |
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Skin Cancer Awareness in the Migrant Population |
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Barriers to Healthcare in the South Sudanese Refugee Population Of Rochester, NY |
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An Online Tool to Promote the New York State Health Care Proxy |
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Colorectal Cancer Screening and Prevention Awareness |
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The main goals of this project include increasing awareness about colorectal cancer prevention and screening options for patients as well as increasing awareness in healthcare providers working with the uninsured and underinsured population. |
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Getting the Word Out |
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Continued work on previous CHIC project website Doyouproxy.org. Work includes increasing awareness and promotion of the website, creation of a network to share completed advanced directives with family, friends, etc., and a translation of the websites into foreign languages. |
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Diabetes Research, Education and Disease Management |
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The aim of the project is to reduce the disease and economic burden of diabetes by reducing the knowledge disparity of the patients who receive their care at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. The program educates patients about diabetes and its management |
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Implementation of Breathalyzers in the Alexander St/East Ave. Neighborhood |
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The aim of this project was to implement a disposable Breathalyzer vending machine in the East Ave./Alexander Street entertainment district to reduce drinking and driving in Monroe County. |
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Improving the Availability of Disposable Breathalyzers |
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By targeting a group most at risk, adults in the 21-35 year old demographic, and a site with a dozen well populated bars, the project aims to increase the availability of disposable Breathalyzers for personal decision making in the Alexander Street and East Avenue neighborhood of Rochester, NY. |
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Medical Student Migrant Health Outreach Project |
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La Clinica is an outreach health service reaching Wayne County, NY migrant workers. After a needs assessment with outreach workers and Mexican migrant workers,
camp visits served to improving health awareness, increase access to care, and build partnerships between University of Rochester medical students, La Clinica, farmers, and migrant workers. |
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Be the Generation |
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The campaign purpose is using a focus group method as a means to actively obtain more study participants to assist in finding a vaccine for HIV. |
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Promoting Exercise in Type I and Type II Diabetics an Educational Workshop |
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An educational workshop focusing on exercise as a means to prevent and manage diabetes was held for patients at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. |
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Promoting Healthy Eating Habits among Type I and Type II Diabetics: An Educational Workshop |
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A nutrition workshop was organized and conducted for patients of the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center as part of a monthly Diabetes Education Group meeting. |
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Health Education for Heavy Alcohol Users |
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Partnerships were formed with the American Heart Association and Alcoholics Anonymous, and conducted an informal focus group determining the educational needs of a local AA chapter. |
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Skiing and Helmet Use: An Intervention |
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The population targeted in this study are skiers at a small community non-profit ski area in Vermont. The study design included researching the data available on helmet use, surveys to gather data, and to implement an intervention involving an informational poster and pamphlet to address the issue. |
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Smoke Alarms Save Lives! |
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A partnership was created between Strong’s pediatric clinic (AC-6) and the Rochester Fire Department to have free smoke and carbon monoxide detectors supplied and installed to lower socioeconomic families. |
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Automated External Defibrillator Awareness and Distribution |
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Intervention with Automated External Defibrillators (AED) decrease mortality associated with this condition. The target community of this project is a local business. The key partners are the American Heart Association, Shock for Life, Eldre Corporation. |
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Automated External Defibrillator Awareness and Distribution |
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Intervention with Automated External Defibrillators (AED) decrease mortality associated with this condition. The target community of this project is a local church. The key partners are the American Heart Association, Team AED, church members, and a local cardiologist. |
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Depression and Recovery from Opiate Addiction |
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This project consisted of designing an educational pamphlet about depression for a clinic that specializes in patients with opiate addictions. The pamphlet had general information about depression, but with a focus on issues specific to recovering users. |
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Goal 5K: Evaluation and Sustainability |
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The project involves increasing publicity for and ensuring the sustainability of a website that helps individuals increase their level of activity by encouraging them to work toward the goal of completing a 5K run/walk. |
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Raising Awareness of Eating Disorders Among Female Athletes and their Coaches |
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A presentation was developed, with an informational folder, awareness poster and video, to help coaches with spreading awareness and preventing eating disorders. One presentation was given to 17 coaches, one trainer and an Athletic Director. |
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Strong Stories: A Healthy Rochester TV Initiative |
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The aim is to create a TV program, medical student run-faculty supervised, that will utilize a popular media outlet in order to inform and educate through real patient stories. As a public health tool, the program will cover both current and pertinent health care topics/issues. |
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Improving Adolescent Health through Involvement with the Boy Scouts of America |
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This longitudinal CHIC project targets Boy Scouts aging 11 to 17 years old in the Brighton, New York area, and is designed to educate and implement healthy behavior. |
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Nutrition and Wellness Group at Strong Ties |
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Strong Ties is a community-based program that provides a complete array of services designed to promote recovery among adults with severe mental illness. |
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Staged Based Behavioral Counseling |
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Staged Based Counseling (SBC) is a behavioral modification modality targeting clients at all levels of readiness to change. This project created SBC as an elective for medical students at the University of Rochester. The goal is to increase trained individuals in this method, and ultimately address the needs of the Rochester Community. |
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Childhood Lead Poisoning Education |
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A DVD on lead education was shown to clients at Jordan Health Center, ABC, Healthy Start, and the BEST Program and distributed to other community partners. By targeting communities with the greatest burden of childhood lead poisoning, an important difference was made to families that need the most intervention. |
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Household Toxic Exposure Prevention |
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A health fair on household toxic exposure prevention was conducted in partnership with Strong’s poison control center and the Orchard Street Community Health Center for their families with children under 6 years of age. The fair was aimed at improving awareness and teaching safety techniques important for prevention of toxic exposures. |
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Blood Pressure Patterns among Ghanaian Immigrants Residing in the Bronx |
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In partnering with a Kidney and Hypertension Center of Rochester, along with the Kittay House Jewish Home of the Bronx, this community was reached through home/work visits for blood pressure screening and education. |
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Professional Crisis: The Need for Activism Training in Medical School Education |
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A cross sectional study design will be utilized to survey second and fourth year medical students will to assess the participants’ views on physicians’ role in advocacy and health policy change, the prevalence of participants’ self reported interest and competence level in doing advocacy work, and their exposure to advocacy training in undergraduate medical education. |
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Diagnostic Imaging for Uninsured Patients of UR Well: A Survey of Rochester Radiology Groups |
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This project was a background assessment of Rochester radiology groups to see the role they may play in providing discounted services to the uninsured patients of UR Well and St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center. |
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Knowledge & Skills Training for Young Adults with Mental Illness Attending Outpatient Program: A Module on Sexual Health |
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The project aim was to design an intervention which will provide some skills and knowledge training to young adult persons with psychiatric illnesses and living in the community around the areas of sexual health and healthy lifestyles. |
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