Overview

Street Medicine Phoenix is a student-driven interprofessional health care and social justice team consisting of students and faculty from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University. Utilizing a biopsychosocial model of care, we aim to improve the health and well-being of Phoenix’s homeless population by holistically addressing each individual’s goals and needs. The significance and impact this project will provide will enable students to practice goal-negotiated, personalized centered care. This project endeavors to help each homeless individual obtain the essentials needed to improve their overall quality of life. The benefit to students is the inter-professional education opportunity to work across the health sciences in a collaborative fashion. This affords students the opportunity to learn about vulnerable and hard to reach communities, giving them hands on experience to practice what they learn within the classroom in real time and in collaboration with students from public health, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, veterinarian sciences, social workers, and physician assistants. Ultimately, developing competent and culturally sensitive healthcare professionals.