Urban Preceptorship Program records, 1968-1979

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Boxes 8-15 are closed until 2048. For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).

All rights owned by the donor, including copyright, were deeded to Chicago Historical Society. Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.

Materials were a gift of Dr. Quentin Young in 2010 (accession #: 2010.0019).

Urban Preceptorship Program records (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.

Correspondence, grant applications, class curricula, student files, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, marketing materials, and other records of the Urban Preceptorship Program (UPP) at the University of Illinois at the Medical Center, which taught medical students, health care professionals, and community health workers about medical care in urban areas. Topics include medical treatment for the poor, prison health, community based clinics and programs, and government policies. Materials were collected by Quentin Young, a physician and professor of medicine, who was founder and first director of the UPP.

Dr. Quentin Young founded the Urban Preceptorship Program (UPP) at the University of Illinois Medical Center in the late 1960s and served as its director until 1972. In the 1960s, Young was a professor in the University of Illinois at Chicago's Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health; in the early 1970s, he was appointed chairman of the Department of Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. The UPP taught medical students, health care professionals, and community health workers about medical care in urban areas. The UPP's curriculum included orientation, fieldwork, and evaluation. Course work and projects covered such topics as medical treatment for the poor, prison health, community based clinics and programs, and government policies.

Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include several issues of a periodical published by the Urban Preceptorship Program, cataloged separately.

• Names
  • Young, Quentin, 1923-
  • Urban Preceptorship Program (Chicago, Ill.)--Archives
  • Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine
  • American Public Health Association
  • Cook County Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)
  • University of Illinois at the Medical Center
• Subject
  • Community health services -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century
  • Health planning
  • Medical care
  • Medical policy
  • Medicine--Study and teaching--Illinois--Chicago
  • Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.
  • Physicians--Illinois--Chicago--20th century
  • Poor--Medical care
  • Prisoners--Medical care
  • Public health--Illinois--Chicago--20th century
• Geographic Coverage
  • Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century
  • South Side (Chicago, Ill.)

The collection is arranged in four series.

Series 1. Administrative files, 1968-1979 (box 1-7)

Series 1 consists of correspondence, grant proposals, student recruitment and marketing materials, press releases, student questionnaires and projects, and class curricula.

Series 2. Student records, 1969-1978 (box 8-15)

RESTRICTION: Box 8-15 CLOSED until 2048

Series 2 contains files of some students enrolled in the UPP.

Series 3. Course materials, 1968-1979 (box 16-31)

Series 3 consists of research materials gathered by UPP staff and others in developing course curricula, such as articles, newspaper clippings, and newsletters. Topics include disease, lifestyle choices, medical education and practice, health care planning, medical facilities and administration, and prison health care. Also included are some slides of Chicago's South Side.

Series 4. Audio materials, 1970-1976 (box 32)

Series 4 contains sound recordings regarding the American Public Health Association, anatomy, paramedic skills, women as health professionals, patient rights, community health, prison health, the UPP, and Cook County Hospital. Also included is a recording of a speech by U.S. Representative Ronald V. Dellums of California.