Clinical Program

About the BTG Clinical Program

Overview:

The BTG Clinical Program is an interdisciplinary experience providing students with the opportunity to become more skilled in collaborative community clinical service for underserved populations. As with BTG CHIP, the Clinical Program provides meaningful service to a partnering clinical/community site by allowing the site to access additional human resources (health/social service professions students). Students from multiple health and social service disciplines from across the city may elect to rotate through one of three program experiences.

Clinical Program Sites

Covenant House serves homeless youth, runaways and youth in crisis, and provides students with an opportunity to engage the youth in the cultivation of constructive responses to stress and attain skills that build positive approaches to life's challenges.

InnovAge Pennsylvania LIFE, a PACE Program (Program of All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly), serves dual eligible, frail community-dwelling older adults.

Philadelphia FIGHT provides primary care to address the physical and emotional health needs of Philadelphia’s children from birth through age 18, regardless of ability to pay.

Prevention Point is a multiservice public health organization where students will experience a nonjudgmental approach to the provision of health care and social services for the hardest-to-reach and often addicted populations.

Eligibility

Space is limited. Interested students are advised to start the application process as early as possible in their professional training.

Students can contact their academic institution’s BTG Clinical Program Coordinator or e-mail Bridget McCormick (bmccor@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) 215-573-3208, BTG Clinical Liaison, for more information about the Clinical Program and availability and eligibility requirements for the clinical sites.

Note to Applicants: Your home school is responsible for providing professional liability insurance as well as ensuring that you have adequate health insurance.

Drexel University

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Temple University

Thomas Jefferson University

University of Pennsylvania

Affiliated Programs

Bryn Mawr College of Social Work and Social Research

University of the Sciences

Elissa Goldberg, MSW
Elissa.Goldberg@DrexelMed.edu
215-991-8579
Steven Rosenzweig, MD
(Academic Supervisor)

Robert Dustin, MA
robertdu@pcom.edu
215-871-6878

Indhu Prabhakaran, DO
(Academic Supervisor)

Providenza Loera Rocco, JD, MSW, MBE
providenza.rocco@temple.edu
215-707-9963

Kathleen Reeves, MD
(Academic Supervisor)

Maria Hervada-Page
Maria.Hervada-Page@jefferson.edu
215-955-6538

Bridget McCormick
bmccor@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215-573-3208

Ken Ginsburg, MD
Christopher Renjilian, MD
(Covenant House)

Hilary R. Bognar, MD, MSCE
(InnovAge Pennsylvania LIFE-Living Independently for Elders)

Margaret Lowenstein, MD, MPhil
(Prevention Point)

Carolyn Solo, MSS
cshank@brynmawr.edu

Cathy Y. Poon, PharmD, FPPAG
c.poon@usciences.edu
215-596-8889