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INSIDE Student Spotlight pages 2-‐3 Faculty Spotlight page 4 Community Partner Corner page 5 UMed Survey Outcomes page 6
Fall 2011
The annual UMed Bus Tour took place on August 20, 2011. This year’s theme was “Health Profiles of Chicago Communities”. Doctors Arthur and Claire Kohrman provided knowledgeable narration as students toured multiple city neighborhoods and partner sites. The tour travelled through UIC/Little Italy, East Garfield Park, West Town, Humboldt Park, Ukrainian Village, through the loop and along scenic Lake Shore Drive, then toured Pilsen, Little Village, the Union Stockyards, Bronzeville and finally North Lawndale. Participants were struck by the rich history and diverse cultural and socioeconomic factors that influence these Chicago neighborhoods. Some of the tour highlights were stops at UMed community partner sites. Students were able to learn about the “Healthy Beat” program at Deborah’s Place that M3s Meena Chelvakumar and Brian Bamberger created in conjunction with homeless women in the East Garfield Park community. Students also heard from CommunityHealth partner, Rebecca Calendo, about how students are developing a “train the trainer” curriculum for the diverse population served by this free clinic. The tour then made its way to Humboldt Park, where Jaime Delgado of the Diabetes Empowerment Center (DEC) spoke to students about fitness and nutrition classes that address the high risk of Diabetes in this largely Puerto Rican community. While at DEC, students also heard from Juan Calderone about HIV prevention and treatment initiatives at VIDA-‐SIDA. Students were then able to sample some delicious Mexican fare, a Chicago specialty, at Tecalitlan restaurant. After lunch, the tour headed to Little Village to get an explanation of how the coal fired plant is affecting health outcomes from LVEJO member Michael Pitula. The tour then continued to North Lawndale where students were able to tour the Lawndale Christian Health Center and hear from Dr. Kara Greeley about health center initiatives. M3 Carmen Cancino met up at LCHC to discuss the “Young Doctors” program, her longitudinal community rotation with fellow M3, Anne Jennings. Students really enjoyed the bus tour and the opportunity to learn more about Chicago and UMed’s incredible community partners. The tour illustrated the importance of “preparing physician-‐leaders to serve urban underserved communities".
UMed class of 2015, program staff, and Drs. Art and Claire Kohrman
UMed Bus Tour: health profiles of Chicago communities
2011-‐2012 UMed Community Partners: Westside Health Authority Diabetes Empowerment Center VIDA/SIDA Community Health Erie Family Health Clinic UIC Prep Lawndale Community Church Mujeres Latinas en Accion Deborah’s Place
Learning through Community Interaction By: Adrienne Baksh – M1 I’ve always been involved in community service projects-‐ even as far back as elementary school-‐ so it was only natural for me to include the underserved into my medical training. I was delighted to discover that UIC offered the Urban Medicine curriculum; it seemed like the perfect opportunity to apply acquired skills to serving my community and become reacquainted with the people of Chicago. I am already learning about so many things-‐ outside of biomedical textbooks and even health insurance -‐ that create barriers for patients obtaining good health. Inspiration comes from everywhere. During my first hospital visit last week, I met
a 65-‐year old woman with health insurance who had multiple hospitalizations through the ER because she can never get a timely appointment. Just the other day, I had a conversation with a Brighton Park resident who explained to me his perspectives on Mexican/Mexican-‐American health. He told me that many Latinos wait until the last minute to get health services, and some don’t go to see a doctor for fearing discovery of their citizenship status. I explained doctor-‐patient confidentiality to him and talked about the Mexican diet. In those 5 minutes, I gained a lot of insight that wasn’t in my textbooks, but in a chance meeting. That’s why I love being here in Chicago-‐ there’s inspiration and information everywhere!
UMed Provides Skills to Forge Strong Community Partnerships By: Darcy Benedict -‐ M2 For me, I see UMed as providing a laboratory in which to develop the skills needed to forge strong community partnerships and launch real life healthcare interventions. Working directly with underserved populations will continue to inform my perspectives on the most relevant healthcare issues within these communities, allowing me to provide more patient-‐centered care and be a better advocate for health equity. In my vision, medicine is a humanitarian pursuit within a broader social context; through UMed, I intend to unite dedicated medical practice with community outreach, research and advocacy to serve the needs of diverse patients and the broader community in the best traditions of the medical profession.
“In my vision, medicine is a humanitarian pursuit within a broader social context.”
“I am already learning about so many things – outside of biomedical textbooks and even health insurance-‐ that create barriers for patients obtaining good health.”
Ending the Cycle of Domestic Abuse By: Yury Parra – M3 My longitudinal Community Rotation involves training hair stylists to recognize signs of domestic violence in their clients and refer them to the resources offered by Mujeres Latinas en Accion. The training happens during an hour and a half seminar that is offered in Spanish since the target population is Pilsen. I became interested in doing something about domestic violence after meeting some domestic violence survivors and learning about the barriers they have to overcome in order to seek help.
UMed and this project have strongly influenced me. They have reassured me that I want to be an advocate for my patients and, and that I want to continue to play an active role in addressing social issues that affect health.
A Passion for Social Justice and Working with the Underserved By: Jeremy Howe – M4 I feel that one of the greatest benefits of being in the Urban Medicine program is being connected to like-‐minded individuals in my medical school class who share my passion for social justice and working with underserved populations. I also feel thankful for the seminar series which UMed provided during my first 2 years of medical school, a time when many individual who have a passion for community medicine feel a strong
disconnect between the education they are receiving and the career goals to which they aspire.
“[We] train hair stylists to recognize signs of domestic violence in their clients.”
“One of the greatest benefits of being in the UMed program is being connected to like-‐minded individuals.”
Meet UMed Faculty Member William C. Kling Bill Kling is an attorney and public policy expert with over 20 years experience in the public and non-‐profit sectors. He currently has an appointment with the UIC School of Public Health, Health Policy and Administration division, where he teaches policy and leadership courses. Mr. Kling also serves as a senior research scientist for UIC, University of Illinois Extension, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-‐Champaign Office of Sustainability. He received his BA degree in economics from the University of Colorado and his JD degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)-‐Chicago Kent College of Law with a Certificate in Environmental and Energy Law and Policy.
Throughout his career, Mr. Kling has provided advice and counsel to educational institutions, local governments and non-‐profit organizations. For the past several years, Mr. Kling
has been engaged in public policy work in the areas of childhood obesity prevention, food systems, community preparedness and youth workforce development, including work on the 2007 Farm Bill. His action-‐oriented public policy work has been funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute, and the Northeast Midwest Institute, among others. He has provided policy consultancy to the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, Illinois ResourceNet, the Institute for Community Resource Development, and the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group.
Mr. Kling is active in many professional development and community activities. He speaks and writes regularly on a variety of topics. Mr. Kling has been an adjunct professor of law at IIT-‐Chicago Kent College of Law for over 10 years, teaching a course he developed entitled “Legislative Advocacy.” He presently serves on The Central States SER Board of Directors, The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Council on Economic Education (ICEE), The Advisory Board for the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, and on the boards of the Sports is Education Foundation and the Illinois Interagency Nutrition Council (INC). He was one of five attorneys serving as counsel to Governor George Ryan’s Commission to Rewrite the Illinois School Code. He was also on Governor Rod Blagojevich’s Education Transition Team and chaired the Youth Violence Subcommittee. As a parent, he has also chaired his local Parent Teachers Association’s legislative committees for
several years. Bill Kling leads a UMed M2 seminar about health policy
This year UMed hosted its first ever community partner fair. This was an event that brought together students and community organizations in an effort to foster sustainable community partnerships and health initiatives. The event included 9 community partners that serve a variety of diverse communities and causes. Organizations included Little Village Environmental Justice Organization,
Erie Family Health Center, Diabetes Empowerment Center, VIDA SIDA, Deborah’s Place, Westside Health Authority, Lawndale Community Church, Angela Odoms-‐Young’s nutrition initiatives and CommunityHealth. Students were able to hear about mission, vision and goals from representatives of each of community organizations/initiatives. After hearing from all of the partners, students were able to prioritize which organizations they wanted to establish longitudinal community rotations with. Over the next 3 years students will either establish public health based projects or build on existing ones in partnership with many of the organizations listed above and with their fellow UMed classmates. At the end of 4 years UMed projects will culminate with a grant proposal, a white paper or a research proposal based on the work students do with these organizations. The hope is that students will be able to gain valuable community health skills while also providing beneficial support to these community organizations/initiatives.
Community Partner Corner
UMed Community Partner Fair
Diabetes Empowerment Center representative Jaime Delgado discusses community initiatives with M1s Laura Johnson (left) and Shintau Lin (right)
UMed Community Advisory Board
This fall a new UMed initiative, development of a community advisory board, was launched. UMed believes that the expertise and advice offered by community organizations, leaders and experienced academic professionals will contribute to new vision and creativity for UMed programming. Representatives from Westside Health Authority, Diabetes Empowerment Center and Deborah’s Place attended the inaugural meeting. Individual members included Cody McSellers-‐McCray, Jaime Delgado and Antoinette Price. Even though this was the first UMed advisory meeting, members offered insightful feedback and powerful suggestions for program improvement. Members proposed it would be helpful to share resources with one another. In order to do so a shared space was created online. UMed hopes to expand on this initiative moving forward. The next community advisory board meeting is scheduled for February and plans to include more members in addition to the three initial participants. Antoinette Price Jaime Delgado Cody McSellers-‐McCray
(1) Very important 40% (2) Important 32% (3) Neutral 17% (4) Not important 6% (5) Not at all important 5%
This fall UMed distributed its first online survey to all Urban Medicine students in order to gauge what they were looking for in the UIC College of Medicine as well as the UMed program, and how influential UMed was when considering where to attend medical school. With a response rate of 66% (63 students), 72% of students mentioned that UMed was a very important (40%) or important (32%) factor in their consideration to attend UIC College of Medicine. 93% of students that identified programs similar to UMed, classified UMed as their first choice program. Students mentioned that the topics of health disparities and inequities, provider cultural competency, health policy and administration, and community engagement were of critical importance to address in the medical school curriculum.
Using Data to Assess Student Motivations
Importance of UMed for enrollment in UIC COM
Response Legend
Urban Medicine Program College of Medicine University of Illinois 150 College of Medicine West 1853 W. Polk Street Chicago, IL 60612 Phone 312-‐996-‐6920 Fax 312-‐996-‐9922 Email UMed@uic.edu
Program Staff Director: Dr. Jorge Girotti jorgeg@uic.edu Assistant Director: Dr. Joanna Michel Jmiche3@uic.edu
“Educating physician leaders to serve urban communities”
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