Global, Rural, Local Health Equity Track

(GRowLocal Track)

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Components of this track provide additional immersion and education for UICOMP Med-Peds residents interested in health equity work. Participants develop skills and strategies that equip them for long-term work in underserved and marginalized populations.

  • 2-week GRowLocal (Global, Rural, Local) health equity elective at Jump Simulation
    sometime during the PGY2, PGY3 or PGY4 year
  • Attending at least one educational conference related to global, rural, or local (urban/community/population) health
  • Completing at least one away rotation at a rural, international, local/urban population site,
    etc.
  • Scholarly activity within the realm of global, rural or local (urban/community/population) health
  • Regular attendance at the GRowLocal Journal Club
  • Med-Peds Community Outpatient in a Rural Site- such as OSF in Escanaba, MI or Pontiac, IL
  • Community Med-Peds (OSF Care-A-Van, shelter medicine, street medicine, Senior World, etc)
  • GRowLocal Health Equity simulation elective at Jump (2 weeks in February)
  • International Health (an international way rotation)
  • Trauma
  • Wound
  • Reading or Research with a focus on Health Equity Work
  • OSF Care-A-Van (mobile medical unit) focusing on high risk zip codes in Peoria
  • OSF Faith Community, including Street Medicine and Shelter Medicine, Promise Academy
  • OSF Senior World
  • OSF/CHOI Pediatric Population Health, including OSF School Nursing, OSF Pediatric Mobile Vaccination Work
  • OSF Gardens of Hope
  • UICOMP Med/Peds Residency Continuity Clinic opportunities in 4th Year at Central IL
  • Friends and Jolt Harm Reduction
  • OSF Energy and Sustainability (in collaboration with CDC BRACE-IL)
  • OSF Wound Clinic
  • OSF Pain Clinic
  • OSF Weight Management and Medical Exercise Clinics at the Riverplex
  • Escanaba, Michigan
  • Alaska
  • Aviation/Austere
  • Haiti (Friends of the Children of Haiti Program)
  • Honduras
  • Nicaragua
  • Peru
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania
  • And more!

Meet Our Director Heading link

Associate Program Director
Mary Stapel
Associate Program Director
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Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Heading link

M-F: 8:30am – 4pm

530 NE Glen Oak Avenue, 5th Floor, OSF North Building, Peoria, Illinois 61637
Phone: 309-655-4940
Email: kamcint2@uic.edu