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Harbor-UCLA Department of Family Medicine Fellowship

Summer Urban Health Fellowship 2008
June 23 - August 8, 2008

This is the one job in which you can be a mentor, a mentee, a community leader, researcher and educator, a political advocate and a healer. Come meet the people and become one with the community! During the 6 weeks students will earn to take medicine to the community and learn the basics of community-oriented primary care. You will learn skills in community needs assessment and develop models in which to implement and evaluate innovative programs to empower communities. Health policy advocacy will also be covered. In the past years this program has taken a team of motivational medical students as well as undergraduate premedical students and high school students to work in the community of Wilmington to improve the health and well being of its people.

The program has six components:

1. Public Health Lecture Series: Nationally recognized teachers from the UCLA School of Public Health will discuss current issues we face in providing health to our nation's underserved.
2. Community Research: Learn methodology in data collection, analysis and interpretation in community needs assessment and health policy. Recent research has been presented in national forums and submitted for publication.
3. Community Health Education: Give basic talks on health promotion and prevention to the families of Wilmington at various settings including schools, churches and other points of community activities.
4. Health Fairs: The medical students plan and hold two health fairs in Wilmington providing a port of entry into our healthcare safety net providers to hundreds of uninsured and underinsured families of Wilmington and other areas of the Southland. Last year over six hundred people were given care.
5. Mentoring: Be a mentor to not only a premedical undergraduate but also to a high school student and expand educational horizons to our youth. Form lasting relationships that will guide and encourage our youth towards community leadership.
6. Clinical Preceptoring: Work with Family Physicians in an underserved impoverished area. International medicine in our own back yard.

All components are brought together at the end of the program when students present and make recommendations to local, state and federal health leaders at our annual health summit. Students will also participate in the Josiah Brown Poster Fair on Thursday, August 2nd.

Students must also participate in the Josiah Brown Poster Fair on Thursday, August 2nd.

Stipend:$470/week
Location:Wilmington, CA (about 20 miles south of UCLA Medical Center)
Time commitment: Full-time

Application

Download the application [doc]

Application Deadline: March 28, 2008
Acceptances will be sent out in mid-April 2008
Please email your applications to: Bahij Austin

If you have any questions please contact us at:
Gilberto Granados MD, MPH; Jyoti Puvvula MD, MPH
Email ggranado@ucla.edu Fax (310) 326-7205. Ph. (310) 534-6239