SMD Ops
This acronym is used for history taking during patient interviews and stands for a framework that includes housing, substance use, and behavioral health.
What is HOUSED BEDS
This international organization helps support and connect street medicine programs around the world.
What is the street medicine institute?
This annual gathering unites volunteers and professionals across Michigan to share knowledge, strategies, and innovations in caring for individuals experiencing homelessness.
Street Medicine of Michigan Symposium (SMMS)
Your patient has foot pain with redness between the toes from suspected tinea pedis. Which medication would you grab, and from where in the foot care bag would you find it?
What is clotrimazole cream from the main bag of the foot care kit?
This is the position Maria served in as an M1
What is research
This Google-based document is updated after every run with patient information, including follow-ups and consults.
What is the patient care chart
This physician is widely credited with founding the modern Street Medicine movement in the U.S. through his work in Pittsburgh.
Who is Jim Withers?
Street Medicine Detroit was founded in this year by a group of medical students hoping to provide direct care to people experiencing homelessness.
What is 2012
A patient endorses using IV drugs. What supplies do you need and from which bag are they typically stored during runs?
What is safer injection drug use kit and Narcan from the harm reduction bag
This is the name of our new program for pregnant patients.
What is Nurture Net?
When making lunches, students are asked to make this many lunches under this amount of money
What is 35-40 lunches under $70-80
In 2023, this U.S. state became the first to officially recognize street medicine teams as eligible Medicaid providers under a new policy to reimburse care delivered on the street.
What is California?
This is the centralized intake and referral system for shelter placements across Detroit.
What is the Coordinated Assessment Model (CAM Detroit)?
While at a shelter-based run, a patient complains of indigestion and acid reflux. Which medication could you offer, and where is it stored?
What is omeprazole or famotidine from the first pocket of the medication bag under “GI meds”?
These are the two newest positions on our board.
What are SMMS and Food
To ensure proper documentation and legal protection, patients receiving harm reduction supplies are asked for this information to create an ID from Safe Point
What is (male/female)(First initial)(birth month)(birth year)(mother’s first initial)
This model of care, often used in housing-first and street medicine programs, emphasizes that stable housing is a prerequisite to successful health outcomes—not the other way around.
What is the Housing First model?
This is the name of the large-scale nonprofit healthcare partnership in Detroit that received over $562,000 via American Rescue Plan funds to expand street medicine services. (2 organizaiton names)
What is NSO and CHASS?
A patient with known hypertension has been out of their medication for several days and is feeling dizzy. What diagnostic supplies and medication might you offer and from which bag would you find them?
What is
Blood pressure cuff from the diagnostic bag
antihypertensive medication (e.g., amlodipine/lisinopril) from the small front pocket (diagonal zip) of the medication bag
Our Street Medicine Detroit founder works in this city and specialty.
What is Toronto and family medicine?
This is the combination for the SMD locker
What is 4-5-6-3
This 1987 legislation created the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the first—and still only—major federal law dedicated to addressing homelessness in the United States.
What is the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act?
As of the 2024 Point-in-Time Count, Detroit had approximately this many individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night.
What is 1,700–2,000?
A patient tells you they haven’t had their blood sugar checked in weeks and are feeling dizzy. You want to check their glucose on-site. Which supplies do you grab, and where are they located?
What are a glucometer, test strips, lancets, and alcohol wipes from the main bag’s green pouch in the diagnostic bag?
This is the college sports team Dr. Bryce played for.
What is MSU Football