Community Health Rotation Program

Clinical/policy/advocacy Rotation Program

About the BTG Community Health Rotation Program

Overview:

The BTG Community Health Rotation Program is an interdisciplinary experience providing students with the opportunity to become more skilled in collaborative community clinical/policy/advocacy service for underserved populations. As with BTG CHIP, the Community Health Rotation Program provides meaningful service to a partnering clinical/policy/advocacy 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.

Community Health Rotation 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.

American Heart Association is an advocacy & policy program where students work on the Breathe Free Pennsylvania Coalition, the dangers of second hand smoke, and policy to support casinos to go smoke-free

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 Community Health Rotation Program Coordinator or e-mail Bridget McCormick (bmccor@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) 215-573-3208, BTG Community Health Rotation Liaison, for more information about the Community Health Rotation Program and availability and eligibility requirements for the 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

Elissa Goldberg, MSW, LSW
ejg32@drexel.edu
215-991-8579
Steven Rosenzweig, MD
(Academic Supervisor)

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

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
(Philadelphia FIGHT)

Ben Cocchiaro, MD

Margaret Lowenstein, MD, MPhil
(Prevention Point)

Mary Florence Sullivan, LMSW

msullivan@brynmawr.edu