Paper instructions

You will be developing a project to meet an unmet community medical need. This can be anything from providing transportation to medical appointments to education on HIV/AIDS prevention. You can choose to serve a community in your backyard or one half way around the world.

The final project will be the tangibles that you have created. Often these take the form of educational materials such as powerpoint lectures. Depending on the project, the tangibles might also include advertisements for seminars, pre- and post-test assessments or materials written in more than one language. Just keep in mind that you will be required to actually create something that will impact your unmet need.

In order to get to the final project, you will need to do some research. Ask yourself, “What program or strategy has been proven to work in the literature for the unmet need I want to impact?” “What works for this patient population?” You will be writing a literature review to prove what works. Basically, you will be justifying your project.

After you have discovered the best strategies/programs, you will tailor that to your own patient population. You will do a needs assessment and develop a budget for implementing the project. There are a variety of assignments but each one will build on what you have done and learned thus far.