Primary care training and enhancement -- residency training in street medicine - the proposed southern illinois university (SIU) school of medicine project is entitled prism - preparing residents in…

Primary care training and enhancement -- residency training in street medicine - the proposed southern illinois university (SIU) school of medicine project is entitled prism - preparing residents in street medicine - seeing homeless care through a new lens in central and southern illinois. The purpose of this project is to prepare SIU family medicine residents across three residency sites in central and southern illinois - one suburban and two rural - to deliver high quality, innovative care to individuals experiencing homelessness in their communities as well as the knowledge, leadership, and inter-professional collaboration skills needed to adapt this care to their future practice communities. Family medicine residents will gain expertise in the unique challenges of chronic disease management, substance use disorder, and mental health through a robust expansion of didactics and community partnerships as well as direct hands-on experiential learning with SIU faculty using state-of-the-art simulations and clinical rotations. Family medicine residents will have the opportunity to build on their skills through direct care of individuals experiencing homelessness as a member of the SIU street medicine team. This innovative team will allow residents to learn firsthand the challenges of care delivery in a nontraditional model through ad hoc street based clinical care as well as the importance of inter-professional and community collaboration as they provide direct service to the nearly 800 individuals experiencing homelessness across three residency sites in a mixture of suburban and rural care settings. This project requests consideration for funding priority by training residents in rural areas and also for funding preference due to placing 67% of the last 2 years of graduates in medically underserved communities.