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Medicine and Design |
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Outlines how to use aesthetics to improve the quality of life for pediatric patients. |
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Hospital Preparedness: Decontamination |
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Rochester 4th Branch Health |
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Orchard Street Community Health Center / GLO Project |
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Doyourproxy.org: An Online Tool to Promote the New York State Health Care Proxy |
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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention in Monroe County |
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Barriers to Healthcare in the South Sudanese Refugee Population Of Rochester, NY |
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Improving Healthcare for the Uninsured: An Analysis of Recruitment and Training Procedures for UR Well Student Outreach at St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center |
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Creation of focus groups and a gathering of data from the UR Well Free Clinic in order to improve the management of the clinic. |
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Advanced Airway Management in Patients Suspected of High Risk Respiratory Pathogens |
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Creation of a training video for advanced airway management in patients suspected of high risk respiratory pathogens. |
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Continued Promotion of Doyourproxy.org: A Campaign Aimed at Increased Awareness and Usage in New York State and Beyond |
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Project objectives include aggressive promotion of the website Doyourproxy.org amongst New York State residents as well as national promotion of this site as a state of the art tool for producing advanced directives nationally. |
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UR Well Student Outreach at St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center |
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During the project, student compiled all patient demographic information in order to evaluate and track the patient population. This information was computerized and translated into useful statistical information. |
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Improving Access to Healthcare in the Migrant Farm Worker Community |
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Project affiliated with the Finger Lakes Migrant Health Care Project at La Clinica to teach students about challenges of health for the Latino community and improve Spanish language skills. |
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One Year in Review: Evaluating UR Well, A Student-Run Clinic for the Uninsured |
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Project involved outlining a method of program evaluation for UR Well as well as begin carrying out the program evaluation by analyzing the currently available data and identifying new sources of data. |
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UR Well Expanding Coverage, Increasing Opportunities |
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The Medical student operated clinic is evaluated in this project to analyze the impact on the community that it serves. |
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Evaluating and Urban Safety-Net Pharmacy |
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This project was the evaluation of a program to purchase commonly-used generic medications in bulk and sell them at-cost to patients. |
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Two Perspectives on Smoking Cessation: A Program Evaluation and an Internet-Based Counseling Analysis |
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This project focuses on a web-assisted tobacco counseling resource. A collaboration between smoking cessation researchers at two universities, the program allows a current smoker to meet privately with a healthcare provider in an online chat room. |
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Addressing the Gap: University of Rochester's Latino Health Curriculum |
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Due to the well-documented gap in health outcomes that arises from lingual and cultural barriers between physicians and their patients, this four-year curriculum encourages a three-pronged approach to language and cultural competency. |
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Empowering Women through the Sojourner House Health Lifestyles Project |
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This project was based at the Sojourner House, an agency which provides transitional housing to high-risk women. An evaluation component was instituted to an existing program, to assess changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings of self-efficacy. Key partners included AIDS Rochester, AHA, ACS, and Planned Parenthood. |
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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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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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Reach Out and Read |
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The Reach Out and Read program, an early literacy program that consists of giving brand new books at each well child exam from the ages of 6 months to 5 years. |
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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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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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The Healthy Hospitals Campaign: Improving the nutritional quality of food offered at hospitals |
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This project studied the prevalence of fast food within hospitals and a campaign to eliminate the presence and promoting healthier food. |
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Pediatric Obesity Promoting Healthy Hearts to Children and Families Rochester City Elementary Schools |
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A Healthy Heart Booth was created for the open houses at five Rochester City elementary schools. The open houses allowed the medical students to reach both elementary school children and their parents. |
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Organization of Medical Students in a Disaster: An Untapped Resource in Emergency Preparedness |
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Medical students attending the School of Medicine represent a skilled, willing resource to aid in a disaster, but are not included in the emergency plan of the affiliated hospital, Strong Memorial. This project aimed to pull together existing resources and leaders within the emergency preparedness plan to propose a system for student participation. |
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The Anthony L. Jordan Diabetes Collaborative: Partnerships for a Sustainable Future |
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The Anthony L. Jordan Health Center (AJHC), serving the northeast central quadrant of Rochester, NY, has developed individualized strategies to supplement diabetes care for its unique patient population. By coordinating area diabetes resources and community agencies, the author sought to enhance existing AJHC efforts with sustainable partnerships to ensure lasting benefits for its patients. |
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Hoops for Health |
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The Hoops for Health after school program was created to target those children at greatest risk. With the help of coordinators at Quad A, a partnership was created with students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and School 34 staff, ultimately leading to the development of the Hoops for Health program in 2003. |
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UR Well Smoking Cessation Program Evaluation |
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For this project, an evaluation of this program was performed with both quantitative and qualitative data collection. Based on the results, several improvements were made to the current program and recommendations for possible future expansion of smoking cessation services were developed. |
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Food Reaching Everyone Spreading Health (FRESH) |
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A survey of 41/52 convenient stores in southwestern Rochester, NY showed that 95% did not offer fresh fruit and 85% did not offer fresh vegetables. Montgomery Neighborhood Center, SouthWest Area Neighborhood, Foodlink, and the University of Rochester partnered to create a produce stand that would deliver fresh fruits and vegetables to this area. |
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Evaluation of the Student Volunteer Experience at UR Well Student Outreach |
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The purpose of this project was to design and implement an evaluation of the student volunteer experience at UR Well. The evaluation was designed with the input of the UR Well Steering Committee and Adrienne Morgan. Key Informant Interviews were completed and a Questionnaire was started. |
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Creating an Electronic Signout System for UR Well and Analysis of the Signout Information |
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To improve care at UR Well Student Outreach, a database was created to store information about patients’ visits. One year of data was converted and analyzed, with summary of results presented. Once the database is fully implemented, it can sustainably replace the paper sign-out procedure. |
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