Community Involvement Project

LKCMedicine Community Involvement Projects (CIP) 

The main objective of Community Involvement Programmes is to serve, in a capacity appropriate for medical students, the beneficiaries found in our local society and other countries through the Local Community Involvement Programmes (LCIPs) and the Overseas Community Involvement Programmes (OCIPs) respectively.

At the start of each academic year, each CIP recruits a small group of M1s as committee members and regular volunteers. LCIPs may also reach out to adhoc volunteers across the year to help out with initiatives such as health screenings. The public is welcome to join us at our local blood donation drives and SGMarrow's cheek swab drives!

OCIP Project Aasha Telebefriending SG North East Residents

Date of Event:

01/09/2020 - 31/03/2021

 

Tele-befriend isolated elderly in the North East region of Singapore (through NE CDC) via weekly phone calls, from our own individual homes. The purpose of this is to check on the isolated elderly more often since they might be especially closed off in these COVID times.

LCIP Silver Trident Home Visitation Programme (Zoom)

Date of Event:

6/10/2020 onwards

Organising Committee: CareHub

Target Group: TTSH Ward 83 patients

Event Objective: Serve the elderly population in the Western region of Singapore who are under the CareHub programme by NUHS.

CareHub extends to all suitable patients who have been admitted to National University Hospital (NUH). These patients are stratified into 3 tiers according to the degree of their medico-psychosocial needs. Silver Trident targets Tier 2 patients specifically, as these patients have medico-psychosocial needs and gaps in their health management that need to be tackled but are not in extremely vulnerable health states where frequent hospital readmissions would impede the regularity and thus, efficacy of the home visits.

Event details: Pre-recorded concert, Zoom interaction, Passing of personalized notes/cards after celebrations

OCIP Project Daya Zoom Lessons

Date of Event:

2/12/2020, 6/1/2021, 3/3/2021

English and Health Education lessons for partner NGO, Peduli Bangsa in Kampung Air, a rural-to-urban transitional village in Batam, Indonesia. Lessons target the translators working in Peduli Bangsa to help them better serve the community.

OCIP Project Kolkata Online Health Seminar

Date of Event:

12/12/2020, 15/02/2021

Health seminar for underprivileged women in local NGO, Daughters of Tomorrow, where we will be teaching them women health issues such as menstrual health, menopause. Health Seminar will target the underprivileged women in the care of Daughters of Tomorrow.

LCIP Pallipals Christmas Concert

Date of Event: 

21/12/2020 

To involve the palliative patients in TTSH Ward 83 in the festivities and break the monotony of the wards.

Event details: Pre-recorded concert, Zoom interaction, Passing of personalized notes/cards after celebrations.

LCIP Neighbourhood Health Service Phone Call Follow-up

Date of Event:

Dec 2020

NHS seeks to follow up on residents from previous health screenings conducted in previous years (Kampong Glam and Leng Kee screening in 2019)

Organised jointly by students from LKCMedicine and NUSYLL

OCIP Project Kyanmar Online Health Seminar

Date of Event:

21/12/2020 - 1/1/2021

Due to the current global pandemic and the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Myanmar, the Project Kyanmar team felt that it would be pertinent to raise health awareness among the residents of Maubin so that they can better protect themselves against the virus (e.g. safe distancing, routes of viral transmission, making homemade masks, mental health and other issues). These lessons will target and be open to all the villagers in Maubin, who will be contacted by YMCA, our partner NGO.

LCIP Project ANGEL Secret Santa

LCIP Project ANGEL Secret Santa

Date of Event:

02/01/2021

Seeks to bring the spirit of giving and cheer to the beneficiaries of Down Syndrome Association, by giving them small care packages that will brighten their day. Promote greater empathy and understanding of people with Down syndrome among LKC students

LCIP Pallipals New Year Concert

Date of Event:

13/01/2021

Concert involves palliative patients in TTSH Ward 83 in the festivities and break the monotony of the wards.
Involves pre-recorded concert, zoom interaction and passing of personalised notes/cards and baked goods after celebrations.

LCIP LKCares Phone Call Follow-up for 2019 Whampoa Health Screening

LCIP LKCares Phone Call Follow-up for 2019 Whampoa Health Screening

Date of Event:

23/01/2021

Event seeks to follow up on previously identified conditions in screened residents, and will be done to promote long-term management of chronic conditions and encourage compliance. Residents who raise issues that require additional support from healthcare system or social services will be referred to partners from AIC and Jalan Besar GRC. Target group is previously screened residents from Sep 19 Whampoa Health Screening.

LCIP Project ANGEL PenPal

LCIP Project ANGEL PenPal

LCIP Project ANGEL PenPal

Date of Event:

January 2021

Letters will be exchanged on regular basis between Project ANGEL members and beneficiaries of Mamre Oaks to befriend them.

LCIP Pallipals Bi-weekly Zoom Befriending Sessions

Date of Event:

January 2021

To engage palliative patients in TTSH Ward 83 once/twice a month to encourage them and bring joy.

OCIP Project Isip Online Sharing Sessions

Date of Event:

End January 2021, End February 2021, End March 2021

To conduct a series of sharing and collaborative learning sessions with the Philippines students so as to ensure a sustained and continued connection with them. The first session aims to focus on introduction to students from both sides, as well as form a conducive and open environment for future sessions. The second will involve a healthcare discussion focusing on different healthcare management and approaches (eg. COVID-19). The third will involve general health education and sharing of clinical skills that may be useful for future trips and study potential areas for health screening.

LCIP LKCares Peacehaven Befriending Sessions

LCIP LKCares Peacehaven Befriending Sessions

Date of Event:

January - June 2021 (biweekly)

Jointly organised by LKCares, Peacehaven Day Centre and AIC, this event seeks to build rapport, understand reasons for non-compliance to treatment and promote greater ownership over management of participants’ chronic conditions. Participants will be scheduled for a biweekly meet-up via Zoom with an assigned volunteer for befriending. Participants who required additional support from the healthcare system or social services can also be referred to partners from AIC for future follow up. Target group is seniors in community that attend Peacehaven Day Centre that have been flagged out to have chronic conditions and are non-compliant with treatment.

LCIP SGMarrow Cheek Swab Collection Drive

Date of Event:

Q2 2021 (TBA)

NTU campus-wide campaign to recruit more bone marrow donors and increase public awareness about bone marrow transplant and its process firsthand with BMDP. Jointly organised by SGMarrow committee and SiMSA BMDP.

LCIP MediSign Healthcare Workshop 1/2

LCIP MediSign Healthcare Workshop 1/2

Date of Event:

February - March 2021, June - July 2021

Promote health awareness among the Deaf participants and equip the Deaf with basic emergency preparedness skills through seminar-style workshops by medical professionals and training-style workshops by Project Red and Singapore Red Cross.

 

Target Group: Deaf community

Jointly organized by MediSign and SADeaf

Blood Donation Drive

Date of Event: February 2021

Organised by LKC SMS CIP Committee annually, the blood donation drive seeks to collect blood for HSA’s Bloodbank future medical use, and raise awareness on the importance and impact of blood donation to OneLKC family.

OneLKC family is welcome to come donate blood!

LCIP LKCares Health Screening in collaboration with AIC (Tentative)

LCIP LKCares Health Screening in collaboration with AIC (Tentative)

Date of Event:

March 2021

Seeks to identify chronic conditions and promote health in more elderly Singaporeans. Jointly organised by LKCares and AIC.

LCIP Project Red First Aid Education

Date of Event:

April 2021

Seeks to educate wider community about first aid through slides, together with Singapore Red Cross. Target primary and secondary school students.

Inter-OCIP Annual Huddle

Date of Event:

07/04/2021

A platform for the various OCIPs in LKCMedicine to learn about each other, and learn from each other, in a bid to help each CIP serve their communities better, and help ensure their efforts are effective and sustainable.

Inter-OCIP Annual Huddle

Date of Event:

21/04/2021

A platform for the various OCIPs in LKCMedicine to learn about each other, and learn from each other, in a bid to help each CIP serve their communities better, and help ensure their efforts are effective and sustainable.

OCIP Project Kolkata Health Screening for Daughters of Tomorrow local NGO (Tentative)

Date of Event:

09/05/2021

Project Kolkata aims to conduct health screening during Daughters of Tomorrow Mother’s Day Celebration.

LCIP Teddy Bear Hospital Educational and Outreach Sessions for Schools

Date of Event:

May - August 2021

Education outreach to alleviate children's fear of hospitals by familiarising them with common medical treatments. Also aims to promote the importance of healthy lifestyles and raise general health awareness in schools in an enjoyable and engaging manner.

Target Group: Nursery, kindergarten and lower primary school students between 4 to 8 years old

Jointly organised by students from LKCMed and NUSYLL who form Teddy Bear Hospital Committee

OCIP Project Asada Online Teaching

Date of Event:

01/05/2021 - 31/07/2021

Sending educational videos and posters on first aid and basic hygiene to be played and put up respectively in Baan Eurphon orphanage in Thailand, in place of the lessons that we would have conducted physically if we could travel there.

LCIP Camp Simba 3 Day Camp (Details dependent on COVID situation)

Date of Event:

June 2021

Address the emotional needs of children whose family members are afflicted with cancer. Provide a safe and conducive environment for them to have fun, while imparting key values such as resilience and courage. Build a community for the children such that they can draw support and strength from one another.

Target Group is children from cancer-afflicted families

Organised by Camp Simba Committee from NUS YLL, Duke-NUS and NTU LKC

CIP Workshop

Date of Event:

June 2021

Talks and workshops to help our OCIPs and LCIPs, and their ICs plan for the new academic year. These training sessions seek to equip each CIP with the skills needed to plan an effective CIP to maximise their contributions to the communities.

OCIP Project Songkeum Online Vocational Teaching

Date of Event:

20/07/2021

As we are unable to go on our trip to Cambodia due to COVID, an online teaching session will be held by our vocational committee to teach some the staff of our local beneficiaries in Cambodia on skills such as website design etc. These skills will then be shared with the villagers there in hopes of providing them with new skills that can help them to achieve a means to improve their quality of life.