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Adopt-A-Doc

The Adopt-A-Doc Program places pediatric residents in the homes of their patients and out into the community. While home visits are no longer common for doctors, home visits for Yale Pediatric interns and site visits of second year residents to local community based organizations allow them to see children as more complete human beings by expanding each resident's knowledge of the child's living environment, culture, family dynamics, and stresses. The goal is to improve health care for children living in and around New Haven, Connecticut, especially those who are new immigrants and those living in poverty. Residents and interns are assigned to a particular neighborhood, where they make home visits to children within that neighborhood while accompanied by a nurse practitioner or outreach workers from The Family Support Team from The Child Study Center. Visits may involve newborns, patients with asthma, or patients with other medical problems. The goal of the home visits and the site visits is to help the pediatrician-in-training have greater understanding of the social, cultural, and family factors that affect the health and well being of children and which may influence the racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes. To find out about the neighborhoods with which our neighborhoods work, click on the links below: