Community Health Initiative (CHI)
HIPHOP Community Health Initiative is a community service student-run program through collaborative community partnerships and supervised by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School that provides students with the opportunity to take part in service-learning activities and get involved with the Greater New Brunswick areas.
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Community Health Navigation (CHN)
Community Health Navigation is one of the Physicianship first-year medical school curriculum clinical selective. Students will participate in a clinical visit, conduct social needs screening, and provide community resources to patients in collaboration with the physicians and community health workers at Eric B. Chandler Health Center.
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- Program Director: Susan Giordano (susan.giordano@rwjms.rutgers.edu)
- 2023-2024 Community Health Navigation Student Coordinators: Vidisha Naini and Jonathan Movsik
Transition of Care (TOC)
Transition of Care is one of the Physicianship first-year medical school curriculum clinical selective. Students will participate in clinical visits at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), conduct social needs screening, provide community resources to patients in collaboration with the physicians, and do follow-up calls (if applicable). Students also attend MTS Interdisciplinary Rounds (MTS stands for Medical Teaching Service).
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- 2023-2024 Transition of Care Student Coordinators: Patrick Glennan and Richa Dahake
Community Health Education Collaborations (CHEC)
Health workshops is integrated into the Physicianship first-year medical school curriculum for students to build collaborative relationships with community partners. First-year medical students research, comprise, and present one health workshop in collaboration with community site partners and their group peers. These sites include Open Doors—a drug abuse rehabilitation center—, Dina’s Dwelling—permanent housing for domestic violence survivors, women, and their children—, Youth Advocacy Program, and many more community sites. Students will be trained by CHEC Student Coordinators. Staff and faculty orient students on how to research, collaborate, and present workshops addressing issues derived from community partners' introduction/brainstorming meetings. Workshops including but not limited to substance abuse, tobacco, nutrition, exercise, and sexual health and responsibility, are presented and anecdotally evaluated.
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Project Outreach
Project Outreach offers numerous short-term and long-term volunteer opportunities to medical, physician assistant, social work, 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 and Toiletries Drive. Volunteers can 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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- 2023-2024 Project Outreach Student Coordinators: Patrick Lin and Kimberlee Sibilia
New Initiatives
Students work with the Program Director to support current and create new initiatives (virtual & on-site). Current projects are Wellness Warriors, Road to Success, Medication Safety, Project SCHEL, and much more.
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- 2023-2024 New Initiatives/Research Student Coordinator: Kikelola Afolabi-Brown
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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PAIR (Patients At/In Risk) Elective
This service elective includes several community-centered advocacy and support programs and/or collaborations. Some examples of programs and/or collaborations include:
-Students shadow a patient and their health care team while serving as a patient advocate and health educator at Robert Wood Johnson AIDS Program. Students also attend the program’s healthcare team meetings.
-Students attend an ICCUCE lecture to educate them about at-risk populations.
-Students can also participate in the MEDTalks series.
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Issues in Cultural Competency and Underserved Community/Students Interested in Restoring Community Health (ICCUCE /SIRCH) Elective
A series of didactic sessions held at the medical school. Some sessions are in collaboration with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School student organizations. All didactic sessions are focused on issues that are prevalent in underserved communities. Students who participate in these sessions will receive a notation on their transcript upon completion of meeting ICCUCE and/or SIRCH elective requirements. SIRCH is a prerequisite for a Distinction in Community Service (DISC).
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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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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 and anecdotal evaluation. 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 may enhance overall health care relationships for future health providers and patients.
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STATS (Students Teaching AIDS To Students) Elective
Students are trained to present two sessions of interactive workshops on topics relating to HIV/AIDS and sexual health and responsibility at community-based organizations and public schools.
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