Will we teach on the street?

This presentation emphasizes "Working Together for Quality" in a medical education setting. We will explore opportunities to bring learners to our patients in a respectful, compassionate and professional manner. This natural blend of compassion and learning benefits the consumer and the student in energetic ways. We will emphasize curriculum specifics in fields of medicine, surgery, behavioral health and public health/advocacy that we are adding to the Family Practice Residency Program at Shasta Community Health Center (FQHC), HOPE Mobile Outreach as well as HOPE Street Medicine Outreach in Redding, California. These curricular emphases are designed to be useful in the mobile, urban and rural homeless medical care setting. Regarding platforms of care, the community collaboration, seeking of stakeholders, interfacing with administrators and educators is a critical piece of learning for students and residents as they anticipate a career with the underserved. We will present a multi-staged plan for development of a dedicated Homeless Medicine Rotation within our Family Practice Residency Program at Shasta Community Health Center. Finally, the presentation will discuss the results of our residency sponsored survey of underserved providers, discussing creation and structure of medical student and resident experiences that link them to "a heart" for the underserved and homeless. This presentation seeks to stimulate thought processes in our membership to create learning opportunities for those that will follow us in the service of our brothers and sisters on the street. A discussion of an effective curricular model, the student/resident involvement in all continuity platforms of care, and the inspiration to seek it and keep doing it despite setback - is in sum, my wish to bring to the table.