University of Louisville Magazine

SUMMER 2016

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5 0 | L O U I S V I L L E . E D U COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Students unite to solve global problems Several UofL students are taking the expression "think globally, act locally" to heart as Clinton Global Initiative Scholars, a program encouraging projects to address areas of need such as homelessness and refugee assistance. Edgewood, Kentucky junior Emma Jacobs, majoring in biology and Spanish, is working to set up a chapter of Food Recovery Network to collect leftover food from on-campus providers to donate to homeless shelters. The work builds on her team's freshman service project, Swipe to Serve, a collaboration with Sodexo that collected about 450 meal swipes donated from students' prepaid meal-plan cards. Those swipes were converted to Thanksgiving meals, which students helped serve to about 350 people at the local Franciscan Kitchen shelter, said Sydney Gomes, a Louisville sophomore English major. Fellow students Kevin Lackey and Madi Harley rounded out the group addressing the poverty of homelessness. Another Clinton Global Scholar, Diana Lalata, a junior English and political science major, proposed I Am Louisville (International Ambassadors of Louisville) to link UofL students to high school and college-age refugees for mutually benef cial friendships. Regular service and social events are intended to help people learn from each other culturally and linguistically. Wesley Turner and Karen Udoh, also chosen for their projects, joined Jacobs and Lalata at the Clinton Global Initiative University for student leaders in April at University of California-Berkeley. UofL student leaders attended the Clinton Global Initiative conference in California in April. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Trover Campus a national model in drawing physicians to rural practice Many rural communities in Kentucky and throughout the United States have too few primary care physicians. To increase the number of physicians in rural communities, the School of Medicine allows medical students to complete the last two years of their training at UofL's Trover Campus at Baptist Health Madisonville. Opened in 1998, Trover Campus was only the second medical school campus in the United States to be placed in a town as small as Madisonville, a community of 20,000 people located 150 miles southwest of Louisville. Data from the program demonstrate that the physicians who trained at the rural location are much more likely to practice in a rural setting. "We are able to show that the investment of resources in our campus over the past 17 years has made a real difference for our commonwealth," said William J. Crump, MD, associate dean for the Trover Campus. "Almost 20 other such small campuses have been established recently around the country. It will be another 10 to 15 years before they are able to prove the outcomes that we have, but we are conf dent that they will f nd the same thing." Of the 1,120 physicians who graduated from the School of Medicine between 2001 and 2008, including those who completed training at the traditional urban campus as well as Trover Campus, 45 percent of those who trained at the rural campus now practice in rural areas, compared with only seven percent of graduates who remained on the urban campus. Even controlling for the impact of a rural upbringing and the choice of family medicine, factors that also predispose a physician to rural practice, the rural campus itself has been shown to increase the likelihood a physician will choose a rural practice. Third-year medical students Andrew Smith, Rebecca Raj and McKinley Hefl in at Trover Campus at Baptist Health Madisonville.

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