Our family medicine residents are involved in community activities throughout their residency program and are strongly encouraged to become engaged in the community where they live and work. Many are able to continue volunteer activities they were involved in prior to residency.
Our major ongoing community medicine activity is participation in the Summit food distribution events of a local (Summit) non-profit (GRACE), where we provide health screenings and health information. Residents also attend a local town’s Well Child Clinic to deliver immunizations and (in PGY1) meet with a nearby town’s Public Health Department Director and do restaurant visits with the town’s Health Inspector. We also provide community education programs in various locations with Overlook's Community Health Department, and at local Y’s. Senior residents assume a primary care role and provide home care visits for selected elderly patients in the community with OFM Faculty attendings and provide hospice home visits for hospice patients with supervision from faculty attending Janice Baker, MD. We seek to continually strengthen our community participation and support, with leadership from the program’s behavioral scientist, Stuart Green, DMH, LCSW.
