Loma Linda Street Medicine Needs More Volunteer Licensed Providers November 5, 2013 General Medically Underserved 0 Street Medicine is Something Different Weekly medical outreaches at: Homeless and Women's Shelters Churches On the streets of San Bernardino Serves the medically underserved: Poor Homeless Marginalized Student-led and Physician-supported Student leaders responsible for organization Physicians/Licensed Providers teach and provide legitimacy to outreaches Official School of Medicine organization A branch of Healthy Neighborhoods Project What We Do Function like a basic mobile clinic Provide medical advice Referrals to low-cost clinics or ED Prescribe and dispense medications Except meds requiring regular labs Except narcotics Administer flu vaccinations Wound care Get to know our patients and their needs Follow-up with patients as availability permits Street Medicine Needs More Volunteer Licensed Providers! Although we are almost entirely student-run, we depend on our volunteer physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide teaching and legitimacy to our medical care Without you, we cannot continue our outreaches! Our current goal is to establish 12 committed physicians/providers as a set of rotating attendings Each attending would volunteer for ony 4 outreaches/year! Can I Volunteer? We currently accept any licensed MD or DO, PA-C, or NP We are looking for physicians/providers specialized in primary care fields, including: Emergency Medicine Family Medicine Internal Medicine and Med-Peds Preventive Medicine Will I Be Covered for Malpractice? Faculty of LLU covered by Risk Management will be covered. Providers not covered by Risk Management will need to provide us with a letter from the insurance company stating that the provider is covered while seeing patients on our outreaches. What About Safety? Often times our outreaches take place in established clinics, shelters and churches, and safety is typically not a problem For our Street Walks, we have developed protocols to optimize the safety of all of our volunteers, and we train all of our student leaders to exercise these protocols We also contact the San Bernardino Sheriff's Dept. dispatcher prior to each Street Walk How Do I Sign Up? For questions or to sign up, email our Attending Liaison, Marcus Heisler, at attendings.streetmedicine.llu@gmail.com You may also email our Director, Barry Howe, at director.streetmedicine.llu@gmail.com Or visit our website: http://mymedhome.com/llstreetmed/volunteers/attending-physicians/ Comments are closed.
