NPCW Sample Events, by Goal

A: UNDERSTANDING

• booth at school for PA day and dissemination of information about the school's PA program
• lectures offered about primary care from PC practitioners
• Discussion on Ethics in Primary Care
• Panel Discussion - What is Primary Care? Primary care doctors discussed the meaning of primary care, their career trajectories, and a typical day.
• A Pediatrician's Perspective on Primary Care
• Language Day - presentation put on by interpreters for American Sign Language, Spanish, and other languages to teach med students basic words and phrases that would be helpful in bridging the communication gap between physician and patient
• Conference on rural primary care
• Workshop on domestic violence

B: LEADERS

• Panel discussion among primary care providers and administrators, from various community clinics in the surrounding area. Primary Care practitioners offered students in attendance stories and advice from their experience in primary care clinics.
• Primary Care Symposium: featured a guest speaker who addressed specifically the topic of this year's theme, followed by three breakout sessions comprised of doctors and residents answering students questions in small group format, and addressing the theme as it pertained to their field.
• Breakfast with the president: A discussion with the school president regarding Sinai's role in providing health care access to East Harlem and Upper east Side Communities.
• Goal and education counseling for young girls interested in health and medicine
• Lifetime acievement awards to Pas, NPs, OBs, and PEDs
• Mixer with primary care faculty and students

C: CAREER OPPS

• Having a Life Outside of Medicine: Primary Care Physicians Speak out: The Associated Residency Director facilitated a discussion regarding having life that doesn't revolve around your career in medicine.
• Community versus Academic Medicine: Three doctors spoke on the differences in the fields of medical practice applications and suggested advice for how one could prepare early for the route of their choice.
• Because hypertension and diabetes were prevalent aliments in a community, students held a blood pressure/glucose screening event at a local grocery store. Other types of screenings done include cholesterol, bone density, and oral exams.

D: COLLABORATION

• Lecture on Collaborative Primary Care: Discussion of the various types of primary care providers, as well as the closer collaboration between primary care providers in order to improve outcomes for patients (in conjunction with the UCSF Center for Collaborative Primary Care).
• Writing for student newspapers/ magazines about NPCW to educate others

E: COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Habitat for Humanity Activity
• Community Service Fair
• Sponsoring a Local health fair
• Collections drive for homeless shelter and women's shelter
• Serving dinner at a homeless shelter
• Activity at an elementary school about nutrition
• Charlottesville Free Clinic: Giving Back to the Community. A founding member of an area free clinic discussed how the clinic has helped to serve so many in the local surrounding area, and how students could become involved at the present time in their medical careers, as well as in the future.
• Book Drive to promote literacy and cell phone drive to collect used cell phones to be reprogrammed by police to call 911 and distributed to victims of domestic violence
• “Experience Science with K-12 grade students” in local schools
• AIDS and STD presentation a local high schools

F: POLITICAL PROCESS

General:

• Informational Table on primary care, legislative activities that impact primary care medicine and access to care issues in CA.
• Health Missouri Initiative - The proposal would raise the tax on cigarettes and tobacco-related products, from which the money would go towards a trust fund that was aimed at curbing smoking in children and teenagers: The students involved with NPCW held a discussion session on this topic aimed at informing health professions students of this proposed legislation and how this topic could be disseminated throughout the local community.
• The National Health Care Debate: As discussion was held about the role of National Health Care in filling access needs. Questions addressed were: Is single payer health care in our future? and Why is American the only industrialized nation without universal healthcare?
• Title VII letter writing campaign
• Discussion lead by professor about the health care policies of Bush and Kerry from an academic perspective

OTHER:

• Three individuals/organizations were honored for demonstrating consistent commitment to the improvement of health care, with a particular focus on primary care and underserved populations.
• Viewing of the movie Supersize Me followed by a duscussion on nutrition in America
• Fitness Challenge
• Distribution of bi/multi lingual pamphlets and brochures to the public
• Ribbon distribution to raise awareness for breast cancer, domestic violence, etc.