The Medical College of Wisconsin's Clinic at Second and Capitol brings the expertise of 15 College faculty and staff to a location designated by the federal government as a physician-manpower shortage area. The program interacts with community organizations in the inner-cities of both Milwaukee and Chicago. The Medical College of Wisconsin is the nation's leading center for research on hypertension in the African American community. Medical College Students, Faculty Staff Coggs Clinic for the Uninsured More than 200 MCW students and faculty volunteer to offer free medical care to the uninsured and working poor at the Isaac Coggs Community Health Center.
Faculty supervise all patient care activities provided by the students.
To train physicians in community based ambulatory care settings, and to meet the health needs of the medically underserved in Milwaukee, the faculty from the Division of General Internal Medicine works with residents to provide quality primary care to patients at the Rainbow Community Health Center on North 27th Street, a federally qualified community health center operated by the Milwaukee Indian Health Board. The Milwaukee Adolescent Health Program, sponsored by the Medical College's Department of Pediatrics, provides confidential, comprehensive, age-appropriate health services to adolescents and their children, recognizing the impact that family, race, and socioeconomic status have on the success of health care delivery. The program's aim is to provide these services to traditionally underserved adolescents such as teen parents and those detained by the juvenile justice system. A total of 50 Medical College faculty and staff are based at these institutions. The Medical College family practice residency program at St. Michael's Hospital, founded 25 years ago, was the first of its kind in Wisconsin and is the state's largest family medicine residency program site.