Community Health Initiative (CHI)
HIPHOP Community Health Initiative is a student-run program through community partnerships that provides students with the opportunity to take part in service-learning activities and get involved with the New Brunswick and nearby communities.
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Community Health Navigation
Community Health Navigation is one of the electives for the Physicianship curriculum. As community health navigators, students will conduct social needs screens and provide community resources to patients in collaboration with the physicians and community health workers at Eric B. Chandler.
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Health Workshops - Community Health Education Collaborations
Health workshops is integrated into the Physicianship curriculum for students to build a longitudinal relationship with a community partner. First-year medical students present one health workshop with their at a community site assigned by Health Workshop Student Coordinators. These sites include “Open Doors”—a drug abuse rehabilitation center, Naomi’s Way—Women’s Transitional Shelter, Youth Advocacy Program and many more community sites. Students will be trained by HIPHOP Steering Committee members on how to present workshops addressing issues such as substance abuse, tobacco, nutrition, exercise and sexual health and responsibility.
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Project Outreach
Project Outreach offers numerous short-term volunteer opportunities to medical, physician assistant, and public health students as well as Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School staff/faculty throughout the entire school year. They can volunteer and/or assist with our Annual 5k Run, Science Health Day, Back to School Drives and Winter Clothing Drive. Volunteers can a serve at local soup kitchens, assist with blood pressure screening at community health fairs, teddy bear check-ups, counting the homeless, and much more.
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New Initiatives (Transitions of Care)
Students work with the Program Director to support current and create new initiatives (virtual & on-site). Current projects include the Transition of Care program which is one of the selectives for the Physicianship curriculum. Students will assist Eric B. Chandler patients transition from hospital care to primary care.
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PAIR (Patients At/In Risk) Elective
This service elective includes 3 components:
1) In collaboration with Central Jersey Family & Health Consortium (CJFHC) medical students provide support, advocacy, and preventative health education to at risk populations.
2) Medical students serve as advocates and educators for at-risk mothers receiving health care at Eric B. Chandler Health Center by providing easy to use books on how to care for your sick child at home. Books will be given to families for continued guidance and usage.
3) Students shadow a patient and their health care team while serving as a cancer patient advocate at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
4) Students are required to attend an ICCUCE lecture to educate them about the community they will serve.
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LISTOS (Literacy Initiative for Students Teaching Older Spanish Speakers) Elective
Students are trained to provide health literacy workshops related to exercise, nutrition, heart healthy behaviors, heart-related conditions, healthy habits and lifestyles, and will end with an integrative review. The program was developed in order to provide a collaborative forum in which students and community members could interact while enhancing proficiency in each others’ language, understanding of their varied cultures and how these experiences can compliment overall health care for future health providers and patients.
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STATS (Students Teaching AIDS To Students) Elective
Students are trained to present a two-session interactive workshop on topics relating to HIV/AIDS and sexual health and responsibility at community based organizations and public schools.
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Mentoring and Tutoring Program
This is a tutoring/mentoring program in which medical students are recruited to mentor/tutor Greater New Brunswick public middle and high school students. The program’s goals are to nurture excellence in high school and encourage higher education.
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Domestic and Sexual Violence Initiative
Domestic and Sexual Violence Initiative offers health professional students Domestic violence (DV) training that derives information from the formal 40-hour volunteer professional DV training. This training lecture and small group session conducted by Rutgers—Domestic Violence Services Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance and several related awareness events.
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