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Understanding the Uninsured in Rochester and Nationwide: The purpose, progress, and practicalities of U.R. Well the free clinic founded and operated by medical students at the University of Rochester |
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Understanding the purpose, progress, and practicalities of the free clinic founded and operated my medical students at the University of Rochester. |
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Community Outreach and Education Services for the Under- and Uninsured |
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Student worked with the Women’s Health Partnership in Rochester, NY to help under and uninsured women deal with all issues involving breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer. |
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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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Breastfeeding Practices and Attitudes Among Rochester City Mothers |
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A pediatrician and a midwife at the Anthony Jordan Health Center each said that they thought about 25% of new mothers from their facility (minority/low SES/less educated women) initiated breastfeeding, and that far fewer continued breastfeeding. In order to help improve breastfeeding rates among this population, this project sought out mothers and found out: 1-What are their attitudes/thoughts surrounding breastfeeding. 2-What factors are most important in their decision to breast or bottlefeed and 3-What do they think would promote breastfeeding in their community. It includes a questionnaire. |
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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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Volunteer Recruitment and Training |
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Improving Services at UR Well Project St. Josephs |
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Project aimed at improving the services at the UR Well clinic by chart review, paper work improvement and volunteer training. |
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Developing a Computerized Patient Database for the UR Well Clinic |
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Beginning states of the creation of a computerized patient database for the UR Well Free Clinic at St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center. |
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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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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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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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Assisting the House of Mercy |
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UR Well Student Outreach at St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center; Summary of Development and Services Provided |
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The project demonstrates the impact of a clinic, established and run by U of R medical students, on a community that is unisured and lacks preventive health care. |
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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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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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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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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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Developing a Patient-Provider Health Information Library for UR Well at St Joseph's Neighborhood Center |
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In order to further involve patients in their own health care UR Well and St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center are developing a patient-oriented health information library. |
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UR Well Homeless Outreach |
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UR Well Homeless Outreach will extend the role of the UR Well Student Outreach project to allow medical students the opportunity to work with Rochester’s homeless population. |
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UR Well Eye Care |
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The UR Well Eye Care project (UWEC) has been built to support Project Eye Care (PEC) and to provide a link with the medical student population as well as to resources of Strong Memorial Hospital. |
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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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Improving Children's and Adolescents' Health Through Free Sports Physical Exams |
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Sustainable partnerships have developed over the years to help successfully perform free physical exams. While the project has received positive feedback, it is now important to evaluate if the program is indeed serving the intended target population. |
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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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