Summer Team Experience

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Summer Team Experience
A project of the UNC Rural Interdisciplinary
Training Program Rebecca Hunter, M.Ed., Director,
[phone]

• Making a Difference in Underserved Communities

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Goals

• Join communities in addressing identified health
  and health-related problems
• Enable students to develop and apply skills in
• Teamwork
• Working with different cultures
• Understanding communities
• Problem-solving
• Program planning 

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Activities

• Participate in community life
• Minimum of six weeks
• Provide services consistent with training
• Some clinical or discipline specific
• Solve problems
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate
• Work as interdisciplinary team members
• Integrate learning achieve new insights
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Logistics

• Work in clinic, hospital, health department
• Work with local team
• Regular work week
• Occasional weekend event
• Live in AHEC apartment
• Earn stipend (33-40 per day)
• Reimbursement for local travel
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Past Projects

• Site
• Siler City (Chatham)
• Activities
• Summer camp for immigrant children
• Outcomes
• Gains for children
• community support

• Ray Branson, pharmacy
• Rob Cockman, pharmacy
• Shenyata Downing, OT
• Mark Gentry, nursing
• Sarah McBane-Lee, pharmacy
• John Morehouse, medicine
• Maria Ortiz, medicine
• Miriam Warner, OT

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Past Projects

• Alice Blair, OT
• Jean Davison, nursing
• Rebecca Magnuson, medicine
• Harita Patel, pharmacy

• Site
• Scotland Neck (Halifax)
• Activities
• Planned bus route
• Outcomes
• Better access to care
• Greater mobility

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Past Projects

• Other examples
• Teen leadership
• Caregiver respite
• Prevention of diabetes complications
• Migrant farm worker education
• Internet empowerment
• Nutrition program planning

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2003 Projects - Sites

• Wilson
• Hendersonville
• Pembroke
• Durham
• Jackson
• One other
• To be named!

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2003 Projects Wilson (2)

• Educate migrant farm workers
• Evaluate prenatal education
• Establish a free pharmacy clinic
• Medications
• Health Education

• Harvest Family Health Center
• Wilson Community Health Center
• Medication Aid Education Consortium

Participants in farm worker education and
prenatal project must speak Spanish
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2003 Projects - Hendersonville

• Build Healthy Aging program
• Conduct functional assessments

• Carolina Village
• First Congregational Church
• Partnerships for Health

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2003 Projects - Pembroke

• Julian Pierce Clinic
• Southern Regional AHEC

• Design prevention program
• Healthy lifestyles
• Native Americans
• Hispanic immigrants
• Clinical preventive services
• Design conduct diabetes education

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2003 Projects - Durham

• Develop physical activity programs
• Work with Healthy Aging campaign

• Duke Street Senior Center
• NC Healthy Aging Network

Housing will not be provided for the Durham
project
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2003 Projects - Jackson

• Contribute to health disparities reduction
  program
• Work with team of physician, pharmacist and nurse
• Conduct intervention for chronic disease
  lifestyle change

• Roanoke-Amaranth Clinic
• Healthy Lifestyles Program

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Why Get Involved?

• Gain fresh perspectives on community
• People
• Culture
• health
• Try practical strategies to get things done
• Learn what others can contribute
• Take time to explore self career

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Next Steps

• For more information
• Visit servnc.unc.edu
• Write or call
• Elizabeth Thomas, ethomas_at_med.unc.edu
• Rebecca Hunter, rhh_at_med.unc.edu
• 919-966-6974
• Set up an interview
• To apply, go to
• www.ibiblio.org/aging/registration