St. Vincent's House Medical Clinic Orientation
Healthcare professionals, please follow this link to the UTMB ACS website.  On this website you will find the St. Vincent's House Medical Clinic Orientation reading list of pertinent articles to assist in preparing you for volunteering in our clinic.  These articles focus on issues surrounding indigent health care, providing care with dignity, health disparity and offer ideas about developing a community clinic in other service areas.   

Should you have questions, after reading the material suggested, please visit the WelCare Initiative's chat room.  Health disparity experts have volunteered to discuss any questions via our chat room and you the schedule is as follows during the week of April 30-May 4, 2007:    
 

 
A Family Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care, U.S. DHHS, Office of Minority Health.
The cultural competency curricula offers information about a variety of cultural, language services, and organizational issues using a variety of engaging case studies and real feedback from providers in health care settings.  This program equips family physicians with awareness, knowledge, and skills to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population they serve.  9 free CME hours of American Academy of Family Physicans' credit.

Cultural Competence in Health Care Settings, Felicia Harris-Williams. April 2005 Office of Minority Health Grantee Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Please contact the WelCare Coordinator at (409) 763-8521 for questions.