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Residency Program in Social Medicine Bibliography

This page contains a partial listing of articles published about the Residency Program in Social Medicine (on top) as well as articles that have been published from our residents’ social medicine projects (below)

Articles about the RPSM and its programs

• Shah MP, Edmonds-Myles S, Anderson M, Shapiro ME, Chu C. The impact of mass incarceration on outpatients in the Bronx: a card study. J Health Care Poor Underserved 2009;20(4):1049-59.
• Mund PA, Heller D, Meissner P, Matthews DW, Hill M, Cunningham CO. Delivering care out of the box: the evolution of an HIV harm reduction medical program. J Health Care Poor Underserved 2008 Aug;19(3):944-51.
• Lefr T, Anderson M, Fornari A, Lambert A, Fletcher J, Baquero M. Using Google Earth^TM as an innovative tool for Community Mapping, Public Health Reports. 2008; 123:474-80.
• Metalios EE, Asgary RG, Cooperman N, Smith CL, Du  E, Modali L,  Sacajiu G.  Teaching Residents to Work with Torture Survivors: Experiences from the Bronx Human Rights Clinic. JGIM. 2008;23(7):1038-1042.
• Strelnick, A H. MD; Swiderski, Debbie MD; Fornari, Alice EdD; Gorski, Victoria MD; Korin, Eliana; Ozuah, Philip MD, PhD; Townsend, Janet M. MD; Selwyn, Peter A. MD, MPH. The Residency Program in Social Medicine of Montefiore Medical Center: 37 Years of Mission-Driven, Interdisciplinary Training in Primary Care, Population Health, and Social Medicine. Academic Medicine. 83(4):378-389, April 2008. You can download this article here.
• Cha S; Ross J; Lurie P; Sacajiu. Description of a Research-Based Health Activism Curriculum for Medical Students. J Gen Intern Med. 21(12):1325-1328,  December 2006.
• Heller D, McCoy K, Cunningham C. An invisible barrier to integrating HIV primary care with harm reduction services: Philosophical clashes between the harm reduction and medical models. Public Health Reports 2003;119(1).
• Ozuah PO. Outcomes of training pediatricians to serve the underserved: social pediatrics. J Natl Med Assoc 2001; 93(11):444-445.
• Strelnick AH. Outdoor-based training examined. Fam Med 1998; 30(1):6-7.
• Strelnick AH, Bedell J, Gonzalez L, Gorski V, Swiderski D. Collaboration in education of primary care physicians. J Gen Intern Med 1994; 9(12):712-713.
• Strelnick H, Younge R. Another kind of bronx cheer. community-oriented primary care at the montefiore family health center. Health PAC Bull. 1992 Fall;22(3):19-23.
• Strelnick AH, Bateman WB, Jones C, Shepherd SD, Massad RJ, Townsend JM et al. Graduate primary care training: a collaborative alternative for family practice, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Ann Intern Med 1988; 109(4):324-334.
• Strelnick AH. If we’re not part of the solution, we’re part of the problem. Fam Med. 1987 Nov-Dec;19(6):421-3.
• Strelnick AH, Shonubi PA. Integrating community oriented primary care into training and practice: a view from the Bronx. Fam Med 1986; 18(4):205-209.
• Boufford JI. Primary care residency training: The first five years. Ann Intern Med. 1977 Sep;87(3):359-68.

Articles based on Social Medicine Projects

• Samayoa B, Anderson MR, O’Sullivan LF, Patricia K, Pacheco A, Matos A, et al. Does HIV VCT reduce risk behaviors? An observational study in Guatemala City. Curr HIV Res 2010 Mar 1;8(2):121-6.
• Cunningham CO, Doran B, DeLuca J, Dyksterhouse R, Asgary R, Sacajiu G. Routine opt-out HIV testing in an urban community health center. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2009 Aug;23(8):619-23.
• Shalev N. From public to private care the historical trajectory of medical services in a new york city jail. Am J Public Health. 2009 Jun;99(6):988-95.
• Reid MJ, Shah NS. Approaches to tuberculosis screening and diagnosis in people with HIV in resource-limited settings. Lancet Infect Dis. 2009 Mar;9(3):173-84.
• Venters H, Lainer-Vos J, Razvi A, Crawford J, Venable PS, Drucker E. Bringing health care advocacy to a public defender’s office. Am J Public Health. 2008 Nov;98(11):1953-5.
• Sobota M, Warkol R, Gold M, Milan F, Schwarz EB, Arnsten JH, et al. An intervention to improve advance emergency contraceptive prescribing practices among academic primary care physicians. Contraception. 2008 Aug;78(2):131-5.
• Gallop-Goodman G. Mission: Zeroing in on HIV/AIDS. HeartandSoul.com. 2007 June/July 2007:78.
• Sacajiu G, Fox A, Ramos M, Sohler N, Heller D, Cunningham C. The evolution of HIV illness representation among marginally housed persons. AIDS Care. 2007 Apr;19(4):539-45.
• Cha SS, Ross JS, Lurie P, Sacajiu G. Description of a research-based health activism curriculum for medical students. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Sep 1.
• Venters HD, Razvi AM, Tobia MS, Drucker E. The case of Scott Ortiz: A clash between criminal justice and public health. Harm Reduct J. 2006 Jul 24;3:21.
• Ross JS, Forsyth BA, Rosenbaum JR. Brief report: Housestaff adherence to cervical cancer screening recommendations. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Jan;21(1):68-70.
• Minior T, Galea S, Stuber J, Ahern J, Ompad D. Racial differences in discrimination experiences and responses among minority substance users. Ethn Dis. 2003 Fall;13(4):521-7.