Family
Medicine Honors Program
In an
effort to better educate medical students about Family Medicine and
to further develop the communication and leadership skills in individuals
who are interested in Family Medicine, the Family Medicine Leadership
Development program was developed in 2002. The Family Medicine Honors
Program deveoped as part of this program. Students who have participated
in the Leadership Development Program during the third year are eligible
to do a month-long independent study honors rotation during the fourth
year. The month is spent doing a Family Medicine related project of
the student’s choice in cooperation with Family Physicians at OSU
or in the community.
In the
Class of 2004, there were fourteen fourth year students who completed
an Honors project.
* Kara Chidester - Your Body, An Owners Manual
* Christen Coyle - Spanish Pt Education on Birth Control
* Mary Krebs - Incorporating Professionalism in Med School Admissions
* Derek Garbellini - English/Spanish Pt Info on Cardiovascular Disease
* Terri Mucha - Redefining Family Medicine 3rd Year Rotation
* Eric Prenger - Premedical Initiative
* Tim Rowland - Family Violence
* Sarah Bonza - Compare wt gain of African Amer & Caucasian Pregnant
Women
* Kelly Fleming - Revising the "Healthcare for the Homeless"
elective
The Class
of 2005 has many honors projects spanning a variety of areas. As of
January 2005, there are twelve students participating in the honors
program.
Watch this
space for a list of this year's projects!!!
Check
out and download Kara
Browse Eric's honor project by clicking on the Premed Initiative tab
at the upper right corner of this site.
Each year,
the students who performed an Honors project present their work at The
Department of Family Medicine Honors Reception at Rardin Family Practice.
Need an Idea for a project?
I
have had the pleasure of being introduced to and working with the Mid-Ohio
Worker’s Association – a grassroots organization whose main
goal is to help the working poor. They help members with services such
as the following: teach them the skills to fight for policies that will
determine their future, offer educational sessions about legal and medical
issues important to their population, “provide a chance for workers
to speak for themselves”, offer preventive medical care, and provide
emergency food and clothing. MWA is not a labor union and accepts no
government funding.
In volunteering
for this organization, including an upcoming information session on
hypertension, I realized that there are excellent opportunities for
the FMLDP. My first thought was that someone could make an honors project
from giving multiple educational sessions on different areas of medicine
that are of concern to this specific population. In addition to the
teaching, this would be a great chance to interact with the working
poor other than just at the free clinics. However, preventive medical
services are always needed, so someone could help set up additional
clinic sessions as a project. Another idea was that the service committee
could collect donations of food or clothing to donate to MWA. If nothing
else, they can always use volunteers to help canvass new members, type
registration cards, help with their newspaper, or any number of other
projects. This organization is all volunteer and would be happy to have
willing hands to help!
Feel free
to contact the Mid-Ohio Worker’s Association at 262-0567 for more
information, or you may also reach me at mesfmd04@yahoo.com. Thank you!
Megan Frank, M.D.
