Achieving Diversity in Dentistry and Medicine
(ADDM) Grant Recipient (2005-2006)
In June 2006,
Kelly Paskowicz,
MS2 and Amanda Kijac,
MS3 traveled to Ann Arbor, MI to represent Midwestern University at the
AMSA national meeting for recipients of the Achieving Diversity in
Dentistry and Medicine (ADDM) grant. Eleven schools nationwide were
selected as grant recipients, and Midwestern University has received the
grant for a third consecutive year in 2005-06. ADDM was created in 2003
with an award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Health Resources and Services Administration. The goal of this unique
project is to integrate cultural competency training into the medical
school curriculum. For the upcoming year, the steering committee for
the ADDM grant will be working on developing curriculum related to
ethnogeriatrics. This field addresses the health care needs of elders
from diverse ethnic populations.
At the conference Kelly and Amanda
heard from representatives of the eleven schools regarding their past
projects and future goals. Common themes included: generating student
interest in cultural competency training, the challenges of integrating
new material into medical school curriculum, creating faculty
development programs in cultural competency training, establishing
service learning opportunities for students, and the evaluating the
impact of curriculum changes. To learn more about the ADDM grant, visit
the AMSA website at:
http://www.amsa.org/addm.
NACHC Health
Professions Education and Training Award
The Department of Family
Medicine is pleased to announce that Marilyn Scott, MS, RN-CS, APN,
Clinical Director at PrimeCare Community Health Inc., has received the
NACHC (National Association of Community Health Centers) 2007 Health
Professions Education and Training Award. Ms. Scott was recognized for
her outstanding contribution in furthering education and training
programs for health professionals at community-based health centers
during the 2007 NACHC annual conference in Dallas, Texas.
In addition
to her full time duties at PrimeCare, Ms. Scott manages Rainbow
Clinic at the Hesed House, Inc. in Aurora. She provides clinical
care, precepts students and provides overall administrative
leadership at this clinic on a volunteer basis!
Volunteer and
service learning opportunities are available for MWU students at
Rainbow Clinic. For more information, please visit
http://chrc.midwestern.edu/Rainbow_Clinic.htm.
PrimeCare
Community Health Inc. is located in Chicago, Illinois and is one of
the sites for the Illinois SEARCH Program. For more information
about the Illinois SEARCH Program, please visit
http://chrc.midwestern.edu/search.htm
Namey/Burnett
Preventive Medicine
Writing Award Competition
The Department of Family Medicine is pleased to announce that
Torry Kahute,
a third-year student at CCOM, was recently awarded second place in the
Namey/Burnett Preventive Medicine Writing Award Competition. This
national competition is sponsored by the ACOFP to honor the best
preventive medicine paper submitted by osteopathic medical students,
residents, interns and fellows. Ms. Kahute’s project addressed the
issue of nutrition for recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. She
has been invited to present her paper at the National ACOFP Conference.
National
Summit on Prevention Presentation
The Department of Family Medicine is proud to announce that Fourth-Year
Student Joe Skariah
was recently accepted to present his research on screening for
colorectal cancer at the Third Annual National Summit on Prevention
sponsored by HRSA. Mr. Skariah’s study evaluated an intervention aimed
at increasing the prevalence of colorectal cancer screening at a
community health center located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois,
whose primary mission is to provide comprehensive primary and
preventative healthcare services. The focus of the intervention
included two parts. The first part is centered on prompting the
physician to discuss colorectal cancer screening, with the second part
directed at empowering patients to approach his/her physician for a
referral.
This project
started as a community health project as part of the CCOM family
medicine and community health rotation. His results have
contributed to quality improvement and increased screening rates at this
clinic.
Secretary's
Award for Innovations in
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Every year, the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) in collaboration with the Federation of
Associations of Schools of the Health Professions sponsors a competition
to select innovative health promotion projects.
The Secretary’s
Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
competition encourages new ideas in health promotion and disease
prevention among students of the health professions across the country.
Midwestern
University is pleased to announce that the First Place Award for 2005
was awarded to three CCOM students.
Shelly Batra,
Nicole Malek and
Sandra Krussel completed a project on oral health screening for
underserved preschool children. They were honored with an expense paid
trip to Washington DC to receive their award which included a cash
prize. Their project was part of the combined family medicine/community
health curriculum sponsored by the Department of Family Medicine in
collaboration with the Illinois Health Education Consortium.
Society of
Teachers of Family Medicine
Predoctoral Conference Presentation
Fourth Year medical students
Joe Skariah and
Matt Pflieger
recently attended the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Predoctoral
Conference in Charleston, South Carolina where they co-presented with
the CCOM faculty from the Department of Family Medicine and the faculty
of Stanford Medical School on curriculum development in cultural
competence. Mr. Skariah and Mr. Pflieger have served for the past two
years on the grant advisory committee to develop curriculum in cultural
competence for Midwestern University.
