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| COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES |
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 Introduction |
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Success in today's age of medicine starts with primary prevention.
Within the current health care climate, it is impossible to practice without devoting attention to the surrounding community. Through many affiliations with partner organizations, the UPMC Shadyside Family Medicine Residency Program readily fulfills its responsibility to the community.
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| Centers for Healthy Hearts and Souls Project |
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| The Centers for Healthy Hearts and Souls (CHHS) began as a faith-based health initiative in 1998 with the support of UPMC Shadyside Hospital Foundation, the UPMC Shadyside Primary Care Institute, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. Developed to address the high incidence of heart disease in the African-American community, CHHS brought together the local church and health care communities together to conduct programs to enhance the physical and spiritual well-being of Pittsburgh's minority residents. The project has become a resource to the community, improving medical access and sponsoring smoking cessation groups, fitness programs, youth health educators, diabetes education and focus groups, and health education. Participation in the project has become a valuable way for residents to become active in many aspects of community medicine. The project is generously funded by various federal, state, and local agencies. For more information about the Centers for Healthy Hearts and Souls, visit their website at www.healthyheartsandsouls.com. |
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| College and University Interaction |
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UPMC Shadyside participates in programs geared toward working with students in the Shadyside area. At Chatham College, faculty and residents work together to provide medical care at the college clinic. Third-year residents help to serve this population's medical needs.
Residents may participate in a student preceptorship program with Carnegie Mellon University. For this program, a resident will be shadowed by a third- or fourth-year college student who has an interest in pursuing a career in medicine. The students spend one-half day per week for six weeks with the resident.
Opportunity exists to provide medical coverage at collegiate and high school athletic events with a sports medicine faculty member or fellow.
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| Health Care for the Underserved |
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In the tradition of health care for the homeless, resident physicians help staff clinics at several locations that serve populations with limited access to medical care. They include:
• the Wood Street Commons, a homeless shelter in downtown Pittsburgh; its clinic is staffed by a nurse, and a doctor is available a few times a month
• the Lawn Street Community Center in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh that has a weekly clinic for adults and children
• Bethlehem Haven, a women's clinic in downtown Pittsburgh
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| School Health |
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| Through the UPMC Shadyside/Pittsburgh Public Schools Health Partnership, the UPMC Shadyside Family Medicine Residency Program has been able to maintain an active role in adolescent health care. Residents have the opportunity throughout the year to participate in such events as Career Day and health fairs, perform sports physicals, and become involved in the Postponing Sexual Involvement (PSI) Series for Young Teens. The PSI program has earned national recognition as a model teen pregnancy prevention program. |
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