Primary Care & Social Internal Medicine
Scholarly Work
Residents develop and implement a scholarly project through a guided curriculum and close mentorship over 3 years of residency. Interns are introduced to a variety of General Internal Medicine topics by attending the National Society of General Internal Medicine Conference. Projects can take many forms and can be in any of the following areas listed in the table below. Many projects have led to regional and national presentations as well as manuscripts, Op-eds, advocacy work and policy changes.
Examples of Projects from 2009-2024
Community and Population Health
Behind Low Vaccination Rates Lurks a More Profound Social Weakness
The Doctor Says You Cannot Have It: A Qualitative Study of Non-Prescription Buprenorphine Use Among Participants at Harm Reduction Age
Community-based health needs assessment of Bangladeshi immigrants in the Bronx using health promoters
Nutritional Quality for Food-Insecure Patients: A Quantitative Analysis of The Nutritional Quality of Food Available at Urban Food Pantries
The Naloxone Team 2015-2018: Development and Evaluation of a Pilot Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Program for Hospitalized General Medicine Patients
Advocacy
Thinking outside the box: Hospitals promoting employment for formerly incarcerated persons
Design of a Social Justice Curriculum to Expand Critical Consciousness Among Resident Trainees
Increasing Access: Patients' Perspectives on Voter Registration in Urban Health Centers
US State Laws And Policies On Opioid Prescribing Practices During the Peak of the Prescription Opioid crisis: Associations with opioid overdose mortality
Primary Care Practice
Improving Discharge Summary Communication Between Inpatient and Outpatient Providers by Targeting Primary Care Provider Needs
Serious Illness Conversation Project
Attitudes of Healthcare Providers Towards Screening for Alcohol Misuse in the Primary Care Setting
Improving Provider Response to Positive Falls Screening Among Older Adults in Community-Based Primary Care
Designing and Implementing a Comprehensive Knowledge Management System in an Academic Federally Qualified Health Center
Clinical Education
Addressing Social Determinants of Health in an Ambulatory Setting: Quasi-Experimental Controlled Study of a Curricular Intervention for Residents
Training Medical Residents in Immigration Detention Health and Advocacy to Expose the Health Harms of Detention
Development and evaluation of a motivational obesity counseling curriculum for internal medicine residents
Expanding reproductive health education and experience for Internal Medicine Residents
Narrative Medicine: Some Thoughts About Scut Work
Global Health