The IMPACcT (Improving Patient Access, Care, and Cost through Training) is a program that provides trainees with a longitudinal, mentored primary care experience integrating education and clinical skills focused on patient-centered care, quality improvement, and population health in an interprofessional, team-based setting.
IMPACcT brings together trainees from six clinical professions:
- Medicine (residents and medical students)
- Nutrition
- Pharmacy
- Physician Assistant
- Psychology
- Social Work
The IMPACcT training site is located at Northwell Health’s Division of General Internal Medicine core practice site at 865 Northern Blvd. in Great Neck, NY. As part of the four-year program, participants work alongside trainees and faculty from multiple professions to deliver care that is high-quality, cost-conscious, and patient-centered. In addition to interprofessional education and clinical care exposure, trainees have opportunities to participate in quality improvement projects, research projects, and curricular design.
Expanded Primary Care Curriculum
Trainees receive expanded education on nationally recognized, high-priority primary care topics. Core curriculum topics such as interprofessional education and leadership skills, behavioral health, and health care disparities are delivered through five half-day workshops offered over the course of the academic year. Curriculum subtopics such as asthma, diabetes, depression, obesity, pain management, and health literacy are delivered through concentrated didactic sessions offered twice weekly during clinical huddles. Sessions are facilitated and led by IMPACcT faculty and include an opportunity for trainees to share reflections and feedback.
Team-Based Clinical Care
Trainees participate in interprofessional, team-based clinical training in a designated patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Clinical training also includes clinical huddles to review and discuss complex patient cases. Zucker School of Medicine students in the IMPACcT program are paired with faculty from the Division of General Internal Medicine for the Initial Clinical Experience (ICE). In addition, students sign up for clinical sessions at the IMPACcT training site. Students in the Second 100 Weeks are paired with Division of General Internal Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, or Department of Family Medicine faculty for the Advanced Clinical Experience Continuity Clinic. During their fourth year, students have the opportunity to participate in IMPACcT-related electives, the community health elective, the public health elective, the obesity elective, the health policy elective, research, quality improvement, and medical education projects
Career Mentoring and Guidance
Upon entry into IMPACcT, trainees are matched with IMPACcT and ICE faculty who remain the trainees’ mentors throughout the program. Mentors and trainees hold regularly scheduled one-on-one meetings that include career mentorship. IMPACcT workshops include panel discussions on career opportunities within primary care as well as other fields, and trainees are by no means committing to a career in primary care by joining the program.
Contact information and to apply:
Lauren Block, MD, MPH
Associate professor and Medical School Track Director,
IMPACcT Program, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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Tiffany Jordan, MHEA
Assistant Director of Dual Degree programs and Grants Management,
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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For questions about scholarly concentrations in general, please contact Tiffany Jordan, MHEA, Assistant Director of Dual Degree Programs and Grant Management. Tiffany.M.Jordan@hofstra.edu