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Keep An Eye On Your Ocular Health: The Importance Of Routine Eye Exams, Kiana Heredia
Keep An Eye On Your Ocular Health: The Importance Of Routine Eye Exams, Kiana Heredia
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
When it comes to scheduling preventive health screening exams, eye exams are often overlooked. Individuals may not understand the importance of their ocular health, and many assume a basic vision screening is comprehensive. However, that is not the case and eye diseases are common and can go undetected for a long period of time before symptoms appear. Seeing a licensed optometrist or ophthalmologist for comprehensive eye exams is important for detecting eye disease in the early stages when treatment is available to prevent vision loss is most effective.
Increasing Screening For Barriers To Transportation At A Family Medicine Clinic In Rural Upstate Ny, Noah Sorkow
Increasing Screening For Barriers To Transportation At A Family Medicine Clinic In Rural Upstate Ny, Noah Sorkow
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Inconsistent access to reliable transportation is a significant barrier to medical care in rural New York. Lack of transportation results in missed medical appointments, poor management of chronic conditions, and increased preventable emergency room visits. Increasing routine screening for this social determinant of health can reveal underlying barriers to care, promote referrals to case workers and increase resource allocation. This project sought to increase routine screening via the promotion of smart phrases to be included in routine wellness documentation in the EMR, in conjunction with a didactic session for current family medicine residents.
Preventive Medicine Screening Measures, Isaac Adams
Preventive Medicine Screening Measures, Isaac Adams
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
In order to make progress towards long-term health on a community level, it is imperative to address health needs on a population basis and using a preventive strategy to prevent the development of more serious illness. With this in mind, this project aimed to create a poster providing easy to understand information to patients with regard to health screenings. Specifically, it addressed screenings for diabetes and pre diabetes, colon cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer.
Implementing A Screening Tool For Insurance Coverage To Improve Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence Among Medicare Beneficiaries, Jennifer Lor
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
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Anxiety Screening In Pediatric Populations, Shubhankar Joshi
Anxiety Screening In Pediatric Populations, Shubhankar Joshi
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
This project is aimed to elucidate guidelines for addressing newly changed recommendations for pediatric anxiety. Similar to the depression screening PHQ2, we hope to establish/develop a similar questionnaire that would serve as a quick screening tool and then further steps for treatment and recommendations on anxiety diagnosis.