Medical student organizations are eligible to apply for grants.
Grants will support health-related educational, advocacy,
community service and other outreach programs that enhance
the well-being of California communities. Grants average $250
- $1000. Download the Medical
Student Grant Program Application and Guidelines
and Grant
Evaluation form.
2008 Medical Student Community
Leadership Grants
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Latino Medical Student Association Regional Conference: The LMSA Regional Conference enables the twelve LMSA Chapters to convene and assemble experts to conduct seminars on Latino health issues, skills development for high school students, undergraduates and medical students, and a variety of health care professionals. The annual conference also promotes access to health care, advancement in cultural competency in medicine as well as advocate community health and elimination of health disparities.
Loma Linda University, School of Medicine
Project HOPE, is a one-on-one mentoring program that connects pregnant and parenting teens with a medical student mentor. The goal of the project is to educate and support the teens while at the same time, providing service learning to the medical students. Topics covered this year include nutrition, breastfeeding, baby safety and goal setting.
Western University of Health Sciences
HPV Vaccine Attitudinal Research Project: This project will specifically focus on the attitude towards vaccination with a target population of parents of young female adolescents ages 9-17 that are identified throughout the Greater Los Angeles area. The goal is to have parents complete surveys on their beliefs and attitudes towards vaccination for the virus. It is our hope that after enough data is collected we will identify a study population that is opposed to vaccination for stratified reasons.
Loma Linda University, School of Medicine
Special Opportunities Project: Is a one-on-one mentoring program that connects teenage boys, who are having trouble in school, with a graduate student mentor. The goal of the project is to educate, support, and provide friendship to the teens while at the same time providing service learning to the graduate students. In a typical session the boys participate in group activity aimed at teaching them valuable life lessons such as teamwork, goal orientation, self esteem, and healthy living.
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Tom Bradley Mini Medical School: The program involves mentoring and teaching four fourth grade classrooms at Tom Bradley Elementary School in South Lon Angeles. The goal is to expose the student to minority medical students as well as scientific information in hopes of sparking their interest in medicine and advanced education. The schedule for this year includes, Nutrition, the disease process and antibiotic resistance via AWARE, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, heart anatomy, and heart attacks and high blood pressure.
Western University of Health Sciences
Cholesterol Screening Fair for the Pomona Community Health Action Teach (PCHAT): provides a monthly, completely student-run health fair that provides basic health screenings for the residents of Pomona, CA. This includes a history and physical performance by a 1st or 2nd year medical student. The students then present to attending physician ( a Western University faculty member). Student members of LACMA will educate patients about cholesterol through pamphlets and discussions after their history and physical.
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Educacion Primero is an effort by USC’s Keck School of Medicine to help erase the disparity in access to healthcare and health education affecting underprivileged and underrepresented communities in the East
Los Angeles area. The members of Educacion Primero address these issues by volunteering their time to put together a two-hour mini-health education curriculum. The material ranges from nutrition, diabetes, the immune system, the cardiovascular system, and other issues pertinent to the community. Trough our efforts, we hope to increase the students’ interest in higher education and to help erase the stigma that is often present in underprivileged communities that higher and professional achievements, such as medicine, are out of their reach.
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
The Screen now and Prevent Program (SNAPP) is the first and only student-run free health clinic offered by USC. Our goal is to screen for common, preventable health conditions, and to provide early intervention. Patients are screened for conditions such as hypercholesteremia and diabetes, offer educationl counseling, and provide access to free prescription pharmaceuticals. We believe we can contribute greatly to the health of our neighbors by identifying common diseases early, and providing valuable preventive and educational information.
Stanford University, School of Medicine
‘Livin’ Large: How Convenient” is a community based obesity prevention collaborative with Healthy Silicon Valley. This multi-media Power Point composite lasts forty minutes and includes visually grasping images and was first exhibited at the Tech Museum in San Jose in January. Evaluations were developed and presented to Health Silicon Valley in February. The conclusion, based on research and participant responses, were that there is a wide discrepancy in knowledge about the prevalence of overweight people in the US, and that participants think that the easiest factor change is individual choice.
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
On August 23, 2008, the Keck AMSA chapter was host to its first annual summer health fair at the USC Health Sciences Campus. The primary objective of the event was to provide health education and promote healthier living for the community in and surrounding East Los Angeles. The fair brought family health, mental health, substance abuse, and veterans’ health services for all age groups. In addition, medical students discussed educational opportunities with local students to promote higher learning in the health care arena. Medical students provided a variety of free health screenings ranging from vital signs to checking blood glucose and cholesterol levels.
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
The Ulezi Family Health Fair 2008 is an annual health education project to inform the residents of the Oak Park community in Sacramento of prevention strategies to diseases prevalent within the African American community. The health fair is a project by student members of the Student National Medical Association at the University of California, Davis Medical School. Its mission is to reduce to reduce the high disease burden and morbidity rates for heart disease, hypertension, stroke, HIV / AIDS, diabetes and obesity within the Oak Park community. It is a public event to encourage lifestyle changes to alleviate the growing health disparity between the African American community and the overall U.S. population.
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Community Outreach is a program that sends medical students to LA County Juvenile Hall on a weekly basis to provide preventative education to the at-risk teens detained there. Topics taught include Drugs and Alcohol, Dating and Violence, Decision Making, Contraception and Sexually Transmitted Infections. Community Outreach is the largest community service program at Keck with over 230 students trained to teach at least one of our five topics. The residents of Juvenile Hall are an at-risk population that receive little or no preventive education but ate highly likely to be participating in high-risk behaviors. In addition, there is a tremendous opportunity to provide positive role models at a time when they are still developing their personal identities and patterns of behavior.
University of California, Irvine
UC Irvine’s Emergency Medicine Interest Group organizes and hosts the UCI Emergency Medicine Student Symposium for emergency medicine (EM) physicians, residents, and medical students. The goals of the symposium are to increase awareness and knowledge of EM subspecialties among medical students and EM residents, and to provide critical emergency skills training. The symposium consists of a series of didactic sessions and skills workshops that will cover such topics as Sport Medicine, Ultrasound, Wilderness Medicine, Pediatrics, Toxicology, and Disaster Medicine subspecialties. It will also provide opportunities to assess medical advances through research presentations by both medical students and faculty, and to obtain information about preparing a career in EM through a residency panel.
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The CMA Foundation proudly provides grants to California medical
student organizations in support of projects that promote
community health and well being.
