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"Their [the BTG students'] involvement helps us with our summer programming and we not only appreciate and benefit from this, but we have come to depend on it."
BTG Community Preceptor |
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BTG Model
The Bridging the Gaps model is designed to broaden student training in the
health professions through service to underserved communities. The program
requires academic health institutions to accomplish the following:
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Identify an underserved community with whom they hope
to collaborate and build service-linked partnerships
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Provide continuity of contact between the students
and faculty at the academic health institution and the identified community
and its organizations and agencies
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Develop and integrate didactic and skill-building
components for students, based on the belief that there is a set
of skills necessary to provide health care to underserved populations
Ensure that supervision is provided by both academic
and community preceptors
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Regularly evaluate the program by eliciting and incorporating
input from participating community and agency personnel, students,
faculty, and the people served by the program
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Inform the community of the progress of the program
through a public forum and an annual report
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In summary, the Bridging the Gaps program commits an academic health institution
to sustain a relationship with an underserved community by providing meaningful
service while training community-responsive health and social service professionals.
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| BTG 20th Anniversary Tribute |
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"BTG allowed me to experience health care from a different perspective, that of the patient. I witnessed the frustration of managing chronic illness on a daily basis, appreciated the courage needed to make meaningful changes for one's health, and the difficulty in making these choices without adequate support or resources …"
BTG Student Intern |
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| What BTG Means to Us |
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