Street medicine: An interprofessional elective to address the unhoused population crisis.

Background And Purpose: The homelessness crisis continues to escalate nationwide, yet many healthcare providers are not adequately prepared to provide care for unhoused patients. An interprofessional Street Medicine elective was developed to address identified knowledge gaps in the unhoused population healthcare needs.

Educational Activity And Setting: The course comprised didactic and clinical elements focused on empathetic communication, resource utilization, and medical management for unhoused patients.

Health services and the Project RoomKey COVID-19 initiative for the unhoused: A university and community partnership.

A hotel-based clinic to serve Project RoomKey residents is a model for meeting the health care needs of an unhoused population. The purpose of this paper is to describe the health services provided by students and licensed clinicians at a hotel that was designed to allow unhoused community residents to shelter in place during the early stages of the Covid pandemic (May 1-June 30, 2020). Documents developed for the project may be useful to others who are setting up similar services for unhoused residents in their own communities.