Temple Emergency Action Corps
Temple Emergency Action Corps, or TEAC, was started in 2007 with a grant of $9,000 to train emergency preparedness to a corps of medical students, physicians and alumni from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. It was started by (Greenfield Foundation President Emeritus) Bill Greenfield, M.D. in response to Hurricane Katrina which caused significant damage and fatalities in New Orleans in 2005. Since then, TEAC has started the student-run Thrive Clinic at One Day At A Time Shelter in North Philadelphia. TEAC students teach CPR and BLS skills to other medical students and the broader North Philadelphia community and provide disaster response skills training to students and faculty.The Global Health curriculum encourages and promotes students to connect students to global medical ideals. In 2023 TEAC joined the AMPATH Consortium and started building a relationship with Tamale Teaching Hospital in Northern Ghana. In 2024 five medical students went to Manipal, India for four weeks to participate in an observership.
Thrive Clinic
Thrive is Temple's first student-run free bridge clinic. The goals are to address structural inequities in access to care in North Philly. The people served are mostly those experiencing homelessness and SUD. The Lewis Katz School of Medicine students work with the community members/patients to educate them on their health and wellness. They listen to the patients and connect them with appropriate resources to deal with their medical issues. The students work to support and motivate healthy life practices and provide the patients with wellness packets.
Global Health Trips
Temple joined the AMPATH Ghana Consortium to provide sustainable healthcare to residents. During the summer of 2024 an M1 student joined a team that travelled to Ghana to work in the Tamale Teaching Hospital. In the summer of 2024 five medical students were in Manipal, India for 4 weeks at Kasturba Medical College.
