Street Medicine

Beginning in September 2025, our residency program will launch a weekly Street Medicine clinic in partnership with our addiction medicine specialists and Conejo Health. This unique experience will allow residents to care for the underserved directly in the community, while gaining invaluable insight into the social, logistical, and systemic barriers that many patients face in accessing healthcare.

Through this experience, residents will collaborate with substance use navigators and community-based organizations to help patients continue their care beyond the street setting. Participants will learn to diagnose and triage common medical conditions associated with homelessness, refine their motivational interviewing skills across a variety of patient presentations, and develop a deeper understanding of how to deliver compassionate, effective care in resource-limited environments.