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UPDATE: Deadline for applications extended to March 24, 2025.

The NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship

This 12-month training program will support licensed, board-eligible physicians trained in FM, IM, or EM who join select New York City homeless healthcare organizations as fellows. We welcome graduating residents and early career primary care providers who are passionate about providing high-quality healthcare for our neighbors experiencing homelessness. Launched in 2020, Montefiore's NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship trains physicians to work with community-based health care and social service organizations to support and empower patients experiencing homelessness to meet their goals related to substance use and drug-user health, virology, sexual & gender-affirming health, mental health, trauma, and chronic disease management.

The NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship has five components:

1. Clinical Work - During the fellowship year, fellows will spend clinical time working alongside experienced homeless healthcare providers delivering shelter-based care, mobile health care, and/or street medicine at their host homeless healthcare organization.

2. Education - Fellows will participate in lectures, seminars, & workshops each week, with educational content focused in three domains: Medical Care, Health Systems & Social Services, & Physician Resiliency. Fellows will learn more about Virology, Sexual & Gender-Affirming Health, Substance Use & Drug-User Health, Trauma-Informed Care, Mental Health, Migrant Health, Public Health, and Advocacy.

3. Mentorship & Clinical Supervision - Fellows will be matched with experienced homeless healthcare providers for regular Clinical Supervision sessions during which fellows will review complex cases, alternative management strategies, and health system/social service navigation.

4. Experiential Learning - Each week, fellows will participate in experiential learning opportunities related to high-yield areas including psychiatry, addiction & drug-user health, and virology.

5. Scholarly Work - Each fellow will work on a scholarly activity which will result in a final presentation as well as a final product, such as a white paper, original article, provider toolkit, and/or abstract for submission to a professional meeting.

Over the course of the academic year, fellows

- provide over 1,000 hours of clinical care to people experiencing homelessness,

- participate in over 200 hours of clinical training in substance use and drug-user health, motivational interviewing, preventive health, health systems and social services, HIV and Hepatitis C, mental health and trauma-informed care, gender-affirming care, and asylum medicine,

- rotate with the NYC Department of Homeless Services Office of the Medical Director, and

- spend over 100 hours working with various community partners learning about incarceration, re-entry services, harm reduction, overdose prevention work, suicide prevention, and low-income assistance programs.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Each fellow will earn an annual salary negotiated with the host homeless healthcare organization (range $120K-$140K).
• Each fellow is eligible for all full-time benefits, including health insurance, disability insurance, and annual & sick leave.
• Each fellow will receive a $20,000 stipend.
• Additional benefits include funding for approved conferences and trainings.

We hope that you will consider this opportunity to provide healthcare and advocacy for our most marginalized neighbors in NYC. Please reach out with any questions or if you are interested in setting up an information session.

Sincerely,

Sandhya Kumar, MD, MPH

Director of Homeless Healthcare Curriculum

Department of Family & Social Medicine

Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine

3544 Jerome Avenue

Bronx, NY 10467

sakumar@montefiore.org

Twitter: @HHFellowshipNYC

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