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"The BTG students bring a heightened level of enthusiasm, creativity, and professionalism to the participants that we serve ... Without a doubt, the BTG students have enriched the lives of those around them ..."
BTG Community Preceptor |
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About the BTG Clinical Program
Overview
The BTG Clinical Program offers students from multiple
health and social service disciplines an opportunity to enhance their skills
in collaborative community-based clinical service for underserved populations.
The Clinical Program is conceived as an advanced community experience that
continues the interdisciplinary approach of the Community Health Internship
Program. To be eligible, students must have reached the clinical portion
of their training.
Students may elect to rotate through one of three Philadelphia program sites.
At each community site, students engage in a set of core experiences focused
around a particular issue.
Clinical Program Sites
Covenant House serves homeless and runaway
youth and youth in crisis. BTG clinical students work in collaboration with
the Covenant House staff to help youth in crisis and homeless youth
cultivate constructive responses to the multiple psychosocial stressors
that can impact their health. BTG Clinical Program students gain exposure
to both Western and Eastern medical approaches for reducing these stressors
and reinforcing behaviors that promote health and resilience.
www.covenanthousepa.org
Newcomers’ Health Project comprises
the Chinatown Clinic and Community Legal Services, and
serves a rapidly growing population of uninsured adults with limited English
proficiency. The Newcomers’ Health Project (NHP) at the Chinatown
Clinic has concentrated its resources on the comprehensive care of hypertension,
diabetes and associated risk factors for cardiovascular disease. BTG Clinical
Program students at NHP learn about the multiple barriers to health care
experienced by newcomers, including language and cultural differences, limited
access to timely medical care, legal issues, and lack of insurance.
Wissahickon Hospice, serves patients with life-limiting conditions and provides students with an opportunity to experience a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to pain and symptom management while helping to address the patients' and their families' emotional and spiritual challenges encountered during the process of death and dying. Wissahickon Hospice
Clinical Program Academic
Program Coordinators
| Drexel University |
Steven Rosenzweig, MD
Steven.rosenzweig@drexelmed.edu
215-991-8530
Vincent J. Zarro, MD, PhD
vzarro@drexelmed.edu
215-991-8515 |
Philadelphia College
Of Osteopathic Medicine |
Eugene Mochan, PhD, DO
genem@pcom.edu
215-871-6444 |
| Temple University |
Trisha Acri, MD
tacri@temple.edu
215-707-8961 |
| Thomas Jefferson University |
R. Patrick McManus Jr., MD
patrick.mcmanus@jefferson.edu
215-923-0643 |
| University of Pennsylvania |
Mary Ellen Bradley, MSW
mebradle@mail.med.upenn.edu
215-898-4141
215-573-2265 (fax)
Ken Ginsburg, MD (Covenant House)
Newcomers’ Health Project: TBA
Peter F. Cronholm, MD, MSCE
(Wissahickon Hospice)
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Programs |
| Bryn Mawr College of Social Work and Social Research |
Donna Harris, MA, MSW, LCSW
dharris@brynmawr.edu
(610) 520-2629 |
| LaSalle University
School of Nursing and Health Sciences |
Shelley Johnson, RN, MSN
johnsons@lasalle.edu
215-951-1430 |
| University of the Sciences in Philadelphia |
Ruth Schemm, EdD, OTR/L
r.schemm@usip.edu
215-596-8900 |
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| BTG 20th Anniversary Tribute |
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"The BTG Clinical experience is unique ... What a perspective-broadening program this has been, building knowledge from the internship and seminar series and then putting that knowledge to use in a setting that demonstrated an ideal model of care."
BTG Clinical Scholar |
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| What BTG Means to Us |
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