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Sun-Safety: Assessing Barriers And Promoting Sun-Safe Practices For Vermonters., Joy A. Benner
Sun-Safety: Assessing Barriers And Promoting Sun-Safe Practices For Vermonters., Joy A. Benner
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Skin cancer continues to be the most common cancer in Vermont and the United States. About one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. Vermont currently ranks second highest in the country for melanoma skin cancer rates. Rates continue to rise and skin cancer is impacting patients at younger and younger ages. Although several factors play into development of melanoma, a large risk factor for developing skin-cancer in one's lifetime is UV exposure. One way to combat this is to encourage regular sun-safe practices, such as daily sunscreen use, seeking shade, and wearing sun-protective clothing. The aim …
Using Your Phone As A Weight-Loss Tool, Sidika Kajtezovic
Using Your Phone As A Weight-Loss Tool, Sidika Kajtezovic
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Over one-third of the population in the United States is obese. Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, hypertension, asthma, myocardial infarction, stroke, osteoarthritis and other psychological disturbances. Patient often find it challenging to make dietary changes in order to lose weight. This project focused on the use of a smart phone application to track daily caloric and nutritional intake, as well as exercise, to help patients lose weight.
Community Lyme Disease Education, Tim Woodin
Community Lyme Disease Education, Tim Woodin
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Lyme disease education is lacking in the primary care setting. Proper patient education lowers healthcare costs, and helps clear confusion surrounding this disease.
Updating Concussion Protocol Information Pamphlet, Susan K. Campbell
Updating Concussion Protocol Information Pamphlet, Susan K. Campbell
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Creating a concussion protocol pamphlet that helps guide patients through recovery with evidence based advice.
Utilizing Social Media To Improve Health Education: Should We Hit Like?, Audrea Bose, Naira Goukasian
Utilizing Social Media To Improve Health Education: Should We Hit Like?, Audrea Bose, Naira Goukasian
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Social media presence in day to day lives is expanding, especially among younger generations. Preventative medicine is becoming the forefront of patient care. Where do the two meet? Healthcare preferences have been shown to vary by age. The younger generation is essentially ready for virtual healthcare access. In our clinical sites, we noticed a common theme of patients being unaware of preventative health practices, risk factors for diseases, or about diseases they already have. Many patients rely on their doctors for this information, but when they don’t have immediate access to their doctor, don’t regularly see their PCP, or maybe …
Transportation Is A Barrier To Accessing Primary Care In Vermont, Max L. Silverstein
Transportation Is A Barrier To Accessing Primary Care In Vermont, Max L. Silverstein
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Transportation barriers lead to rescheduled or missed appointments, delayed care, and missed or delayed medication use. Rural patients are especially vulnerable to transportation barriers: In Chittenden County specifically, older adults surveyed reported difficulty with transportation, with 69% delaying medical appointments due to transportation barriers. Based on the data collected in this study, even among patients at South Burlington Family Medicine, distance from the office is correlated with declining important medical appointments.
Transportation Is A Barrier To Accessing Primary Care In Vermont, Max L. Silverstein
Transportation Is A Barrier To Accessing Primary Care In Vermont, Max L. Silverstein
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Transportation barriers lead to rescheduled or missed appointments, delayed care, and missed or delayed medication use. Rural patients are especially vulnerable to transportation barriers; in Chittenden County specifically, older adults surveyed reported difficulty with transportation, with 69% delaying medical appointments due to transportation barriers. Based on data collected in this study, even among patients at South Burlington Family Medicine, distance from the office is correlated with declining important medical appointments.
Promoting Healthy And Active Lifestyles With Home Exercises In South Burlington, Vt, Jonathan Gau
Promoting Healthy And Active Lifestyles With Home Exercises In South Burlington, Vt, Jonathan Gau
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
The barriers to exercise that patients face are often multi-factorial. Whether its due to weather, financial costs, lack of time, or if the individual simply isn't a gym person, we see a number of patients everyday who are not regularly exercising. This brochure is meant to provide patients during office visits with a tangible source of information that provides examples of in-home exercises, categorized by difficulty, that they can perform without any additional equipment.
Type 2 Diabetes Medication Breakdown, Kristen Keene
Type 2 Diabetes Medication Breakdown, Kristen Keene
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
There are many new medications for treatment of type 2 diabetes and these medications have many positive effects that go beyond lowering blood glucose. However, many of these medications are expensive and some insurance plans don’t cover them. Many patients struggle to pay for their diabetes medications and providers often are unsure of which medications will be covered by insurance. This project was designed to enhance patient education regarding diabetes medications and potential costs associated.
Harm Reduction In The Emergency Department, Alexa J. Golden
Harm Reduction In The Emergency Department, Alexa J. Golden
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
The number of overdose deaths in Vermont has been trending up over the past several years. A majority of these fatalities involved synthetic opioid fentanyl. The Emergency Department (ED) at Central Vermont Medical Center delivers medication assisted treatment (MAT) through the Rapid Access to MAT (RAM) program. This program has connected many people in the region to treatment for opiate use disorder. However it was identified that we lacked connection to harm reduction services for those not interested in MAT. Harm reduction education was provided for recovery coaches and ED nursing staff. Harm reduction kits containing life-saving supplies such as …
Easily Digestible: Addressing Food Literacy With Short Educational Videos, Kalle J. Fjeld
Easily Digestible: Addressing Food Literacy With Short Educational Videos, Kalle J. Fjeld
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Food literacy is the knowledge and skills needed to select and prepare food as well as determine food intake. These skills are necessary for a healthy diet, which is a major contributing factor to chronic disease prevention and management. People with diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease can have great benefit from improving diet quality through increasing at-home food preparation and consumption of fruits and vegetables. In partnership with a Food Farmacy pilot program at Hudson Headwaters Health Network in Glens Falls, NY this project sought to use web-based food literacy education for a population of 40 patients with …
Evaluating Knowledge And Educating Patients About Diabetic Retinopathy Screening In Washington County, Vt, Delaney Curran
Evaluating Knowledge And Educating Patients About Diabetic Retinopathy Screening In Washington County, Vt, Delaney Curran
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness in adults. Early detection and subsequent treatment of DR has been shown to be effective at saving vision and medical costs. However, adherence to annual dilated eye exams is relatively poor among people with diabetes. This project in Waterbury, VT aimed to identify patients' potential knowledge gaps about the connection between diabetes and eye disease, educate patients about DR with a 2 min educational video in the primary care office, and then assess their level of interest in getting an eye exam after watching the video.
Increasing Oral Health Care For The Elderly In Plattsburgh, Ny, Megan E. Prue
Increasing Oral Health Care For The Elderly In Plattsburgh, Ny, Megan E. Prue
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Poor oral hygiene can have many adverse systemic effects in the elderly, including aspiration pneumonia. This project explored ways to increase dental care in the elderly, with the aim of decreasing rates of pneumonia along the way.
Oral Health Screening For At-Risk Adults, Karla I. Brandao
Oral Health Screening For At-Risk Adults, Karla I. Brandao
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Oral health screening and prevention is common during well-child checks. However, this screening in adults is not as consistent. In addition, oral health has been implicated in a variety of medical conditions, making it a very important factor in systemic disease. The goal of this project is to create an oral health screening tool which can be distributed to adults, especially adults who are at high risk due to diabetes, substance use disorder, pregnancy, etc. Those with positive screening should receive a handout with some resources and information.
Type 2 Diabetes Medication Breakdown, Kristen Keene
Type 2 Diabetes Medication Breakdown, Kristen Keene
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
There are many new medications for treatment of type 2 diabetes and these medications have many positive effects that go beyond lowering blood glucose. However, many of these medications are expensive and some insurance plans don’t cover them. Many patients struggle to pay for their diabetes medications and providers often are unsure of which medications will be covered by insurance. This project was designed to enhance patient education regarding diabetes medications and potential costs associated.
Phq-9, But In Spanish, Jose Calderon
Phq-9, But In Spanish, Jose Calderon
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Spanish speaking patients are often missed for depression. A common issue is lack of awareness of the Spanish version of the PHQ-9
Food Security During Remote Schooling, Julia Lane Clemens
Food Security During Remote Schooling, Julia Lane Clemens
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
This project examined how remote schooling during the coronavirus pandemic affected patients' food security. Patients were surveyed about their access to food and how this had changed during the pandemic. Recommendations were made to the clinic following data collection.
Raising Awareness About The Vermont Donor Milk Center, Rosie Friedman, Emi Eakin
Raising Awareness About The Vermont Donor Milk Center, Rosie Friedman, Emi Eakin
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
The Vermont Donor Milk Center (VDMC) is an emerging community resource that provides donated, pasteurized breast milk to new parents for their infants. Upon questioning, we identified that many providers did not know about the VDMC or how to prescribe milk. In addition, VDMC expressed that they have not been able to complete the community outreach they had initially hoped for. We chose to dedicate our project to disseminating information about VDMC to perinatal care providers in Vermont.
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Raising Awareness & Creating Easier Access To Resources, Christina Sanchez-Grew
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Raising Awareness & Creating Easier Access To Resources, Christina Sanchez-Grew
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) such as abuse, neglect, and witnessing household dysfunction are common throughout the United States and are occurring in our own communities. ACEs impose immediate health risks to children but also are associated with poor health outcomes in adulthood including higher rates of cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, obesity, depression and substance use. The goal of this project was to contribute to prevention strategies for ACEs. This was accomplished by using flyers to raise awareness and educate the community on the prevalence and outcomes of ACEs, and by using QR codes to make parenting resources easily …
Healthcare Provider Awareness Of Food Insecurity Resources In Berlin, Vt, Melanie P. Parziale
Healthcare Provider Awareness Of Food Insecurity Resources In Berlin, Vt, Melanie P. Parziale
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
No abstract provided.
Pilot Study: Healthcare Cannabis Assessment, Nicole Wershoven
Pilot Study: Healthcare Cannabis Assessment, Nicole Wershoven
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Due to state legalization and increased access to cannabis, there is increasing use of cannabis in Vermont and nationwide. Cannabis is used medically for certain qualifying conditions in Vermont in addition to recreationally. In a recent study they found 45% of adult primary care patients in Vermont had used cannabis in the last year and only 18% of patients reported their clinician as being a good source of information regarding cannabis. Educating clinicians about cannabis is critical for quality comprehensive patient care. The objective of this project was the development of a short survey to deploy to primary care clinicians …
Smoking Cessation Patient Intervention In Connecticut Primary Care Clinic, Fay Abdullah
Smoking Cessation Patient Intervention In Connecticut Primary Care Clinic, Fay Abdullah
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Cigarette smoking is associated with numerous adverse health effects. As such, USPSTF recommends clinicians provide smoking cessation interventions to patients. The aim of this project is to develop a consistent method for providing patients at the Newtown Primary Care facility in Newtown, Connecticut with a smoking cessation intervention during their annual physical exam.
Accessing Healthcare In The Era Of Covid-19 For Youth Experiencing Homelessness, Ray Mak
Accessing Healthcare In The Era Of Covid-19 For Youth Experiencing Homelessness, Ray Mak
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Youth experiencing homelessness face multifactorial challenges in obtaining adequate health literacy. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for healthcare as well as heightened confusion with the spread of health misinformation. This project aims to provide a step-by-step guide for when youth should seek medical treatment for COVID-19 to avoid unnecessary medical costs.
Addressing Pandemic-Related Barriers To Fitness, Kyle Leonard
Addressing Pandemic-Related Barriers To Fitness, Kyle Leonard
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Obesity is a persistent concern in Clinton County, New York. Over one-third of children and over two-thirds of adults in the county are classified as either overweight or obese. Obesity is associated with many adverse health outcomes, including all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis, diabetes, and various cancers. Moreover, increased prevalence of obesity leads to increased healthcare costs for those affected, amounting to tens of billions of excess dollars spent annually. As a result of the pandemic, several fitness centers in the Plattsburgh area had closed for good, leaving many residents without access to fitness. Many of those residents had been …
Promoting Weight-Loss Via Smartphone Health Applications (Myfitnesspal), Michael S. Barnum
Promoting Weight-Loss Via Smartphone Health Applications (Myfitnesspal), Michael S. Barnum
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Obesity has become a public health crisis in the United States. 68% of men and 64% of women in the United States are considered overweight or obese. Obesity is being addressed through a variety of strategies, the use of mobile apps is a relatively new development that could prove useful in helping people to develop healthy dietary habits. Tracking the consumption of certain foods and drinks may potentially help individuals achieve an improved understanding of their dietary patterns. The goal of this project was to develop and provide educational materials on the use of MyFitnessPal to patients seeking dietary advice.
Resource To Address Pandemic-Related Anxiety And Depression For Pregnant Patients In Vermont, Mohammed Wali
Resource To Address Pandemic-Related Anxiety And Depression For Pregnant Patients In Vermont, Mohammed Wali
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to patient deaths, strained health care systems, and economic uncertainty. Distress during pregnancy can lead to adverse outcomes for both parent and baby. A patient-friendly handout was created for pregnant patients to offer reassurance, incorporate mind-body recommendations to address stress, and offer screening tools to empower them to address mood concerns with their obstetric providers in the COVID-era.
Narrative Medicine: Perspectives On Opioid Maintenance, Noorin Damji
Narrative Medicine: Perspectives On Opioid Maintenance, Noorin Damji
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
People who experience opioid addiction often feel marginalized by healthcare workers, or stigmatized by the medical system. Additionally, there are not enough medical providers to meet the needs of people who struggle with opioid addiction. These factors create barriers that prevent the medical establishment from effectively meeting the needs of people who experience addiction. This project compiles rich perspectives of patients on opioid maintenance treatment to share with medical students and providers to foster greater empathy for these patients, and positive attitudes toward managing substance use disorder among future medical providers.
Increasing Public Perceptions Of Stroke, Juan A. Conde, Juan Conde Fabela
Increasing Public Perceptions Of Stroke, Juan A. Conde, Juan Conde Fabela
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Analysis of publicly available data for the selected county of Rutland Vermont was performed to understand the underlying health problems affecting the county. Although VT overall has better health status indicators, including better access to care, and lower rates of chronic diseases than the nation, pockets of the state have higher rates of chronic diseases including obesity, DM, and cerebrovascular accidents.
Increasing awareness of stroke risk factors and symptoms is a cost-effective method to reduced stroke burden and provide successful treatment.
Identifying Barriers To Sunscreen Use And Sun Safety Education, Seneca Hutson
Identifying Barriers To Sunscreen Use And Sun Safety Education, Seneca Hutson
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
No abstract provided.
Evaluating Knowledge And Educating Patients About Diabetic Retinopathy Screening In Washington County, Vt, Delaney Curran
Evaluating Knowledge And Educating Patients About Diabetic Retinopathy Screening In Washington County, Vt, Delaney Curran
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
No abstract provided.