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Student-Run Free Clinics Stand at a Critical Junction Between Undergraduate Medical Education, Clinical Care, and Advocacy Open
Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) act as primary care providers that bring health care to populations in need and are an important source of undergraduate medical education (UME), guiding trainees through the art of history taking and physi…
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Perceived Barriers to and Facilitators of Hypertension Management among Underserved African American Older Adults Open
Objective: To understand the perceived barriers to and facilitators of hypertension self-management among underserved African American older adults in a southeastern clinic.Design: Qualitative descriptive.Setting: Urban cardiovascular hea…
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Evaluating the Relationship Between Participation in Student-Run Free Clinics and Changes in Empathy in Medical Students Open
Purpose: We explored differences in changes in medical student empathy in the third year of medical school between volunteers at JeffHOPE, a multisite medical student–run free clinic of Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC), and nonvoluntee…
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Health disparities and underserved populations: a potential solution, medical school partnerships with free clinics to improve curriculum Open
Health-care educators share the social responsibility to teach medical students about social determinants of health and health-care disparities and subsequently to encourage medical students to pursue residencies in primary care and medica…
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Screening for Social Determinants of Health in Free and Charitable Clinics in North Carolina Open
Free and charitable clinics care for patients at risk of unmet social needs, but limited research is available describing what these clinics do to address social determinants of health (SDH). We conducted a survey of free and charitable cl…
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Occupational Therapy’s Role in an Interprofessional Student-Run Free Clinic: Challenges and Opportunities Identified Open
Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) provide services to underserved populations while enhancing student education. Occupational therapy (OT) participation in integrated care SRFCs is an emerging area of practice and enhances the interprofessi…
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Primary Care Continuity Improves Diabetic Health Outcomes: From Free Clinics to Federally Qualified Health Centers Open
This study demonstrates the utility of a linkage program from free clinics to FQHCs. Those individuals with diabetes receiving health care from an FQHC demonstrated improved glycemic control.
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Association of a Health Coaching and Transportation Assistance Intervention at a Free Ophthalmology Homeless Shelter Clinic With Follow-up Rates Open
This study suggests that a health coaching and bus token intervention improved follow-up rates at a free ophthalmology homeless shelter clinic by at least 39.8%; this improvement supports considering implementation of this intervention whe…
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Predicting No-shows at a Student-Run Comprehensive Primary Care Clinic Open
Background and Objectives: Missed appointments represent a significant challenge to the efficient and effective provision of care in the outpatient setting. High no-show rates result in ineffective use of human resources and contribute to …
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Service Learning in Health Care for Underserved Communities: University of Iowa Mobile Clinic, 2019 Open
The University of Iowa Mobile Clinic (UIMC) is an interdisciplinary student-run free medical clinic founded in 2002. UIMC provides free health screenings, education, and basic services to underserved populations in Iowa: immigrants, refuge…
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Health Literacy and Medication Adherence Among Patients Treated in a Free Health Clinic Open
Background: A patient’s health literacy is not routinely assessed during visits with a health care provider. Since low health literacy is a risk factor for poor health outcomes, assessing health literacy should be considered as part of the…
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The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity for Operational Innovation at 2 Student-Run Free Clinics Open
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent county shelter-in-place order forced the Cardinal Free Clinics (CFCs), Stanford University’s 2 student-run free clinics, to close in March 2020. As student-run free clinics adhering to univ…
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Effects of Clinic First Educational Interventions on Resident Wellness and Engagement Open
Background and Objectives: Tensions between clinical and hospital training, along with dysfunctional family medicine training clinics, have resulted in continuity clinic being the least favorite part of training for some residents. These f…
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Rapid Adoption of Telehealth at an Interprofessional Student-Run Free Clinic Open
Introduction: Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) have become important primary care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. With students pulled from clinical sites, funding deficits, SRFCs’ voluntary nature, and no best practices for telehealth…
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Patients’ experience of a nurse‐led lifestyle clinic at a Swedish health centre Open
Background In Sweden, 56% of the population aged 16–84 have an unhealthy lifestyle. The primary health care ( PHC ) has been instructed to offer citizens health promotion and disease‐preventive actions. Very few studies have been conducted…
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Patient Expectations and Satisfaction When Using a Student-Run Health Clinic Open
Background: Promise Clinic, a student-run continuity-based free health clinic affiliated with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, serves the uninsured and low-income population in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Though it has been opera…
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Integrating Undergraduate Patient Partners into Diabetes self-management education: Evaluating a free clinic pilot program for the Underserved Open
Volunteer undergraduate Patient Partners are a beneficial adjunct to DSME delivery in the resource-constrained environment of a student-run free clinic.
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Increasing Access to Specialized Dermatology Care: A Retrospective Study Investigating Clinical Operation and Impact of a University-Affiliated Free Clinic Open
Our experience illustrates that providing free, comprehensive dermatology care in a university hospital by partnering with a nonprofit clinic is both feasible and beneficial to the greater community.
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An Evaluation of Patient and Student Experience at a Longstanding Student-run Free Clinic in Cape Town, South Africa Open
Background Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) combine medical student learning with the provision of free health care. A comprehensive evaluation of patient experience at SRFCs is needed to ensure a balance between valuable clinical experien…
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Uninsured free clinic patients’ experiences and perceptions of healthcare services, community resources, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Open
Free clinics provide free or reduced fee healthcare to individuals who lack access to primary care and are socio-economically disadvantaged. There has been a paucity of free clinic research with the few studies employing a quantitative des…
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Patient-centeredness and empathy in a bilingual interprofessional primary care teaching clinic: a pilot study Open
Utilizing the Consultation and Relational Empathy survey, this project examined the perceptions of care team empathy and patient-centeredness between English- and Spanish-speaking patients. From fall through spring semesters, patient surve…
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Developing an Interprofessional Student-Led Clinic to Address Health Disparities in a Pacific Islander Migrant Community Open
Student-led free clinics (SLFC) have become a way to provide care to vulnerable, uninsured populations. SLFCs can offer the opportunity to integrate interprofessional education models emphasizing the roles of different health care discipli…
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Uninsured With Diabetes: How Student-Run Free Medical Clinics Are Filling the Gap Open
wo million American adults <65 years of age are reported to have diabetes and no health insurance coverage, a situation with significant public health and economic ramifications (1).Compared to their insured counterparts, uninsured people …
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Quality of Diabetes and Hypertension Management at the DAWN (Dedicated to Aurora’s Wellness and Needs) Student-Run Free Clinic Open
Introduction Student-Run Free Clinics (SRFCs) are part of the safety-net healthcare system. Given variable settings and models, relatively little is known about the quality of care in these settings. Methods A mixed-methods evaluation of d…
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Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic Open
The Ophthalmology Student Interest Group at Indiana University School of Medicine provides a free student-run eye screening clinic for an underserved community in Indianapolis. Patients with abnormal findings are referred to the ophthalmol…
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Podcasts as a Method to Deliver Education on Stigma Surrounding Opioid Use Disorder Open
The objective of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of a podcast miniseries to reduce stigma surrounding opioid use disorder (OUD) among student pharmacists. Students in their second and third professional years from two schoo…
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Continuity of Care: Perspectives of Uninsured Free Clinic Patients Open
Background: Continuity of care is vital to the success of a health-care system because it improves patient satisfaction and health outcomes, and reduces hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Objective: The purpose of this study was t…
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Value of Dermatology Nights at a student-run free clinic Open
The Free Clinic at Lubbock Impact is a student-run free clinic affiliated with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas. Every Wednesday, the clinic provides free health services to the uninsured patient populatio…
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Establishing Dermatologic Care for the Homeless and Underserved at a Student-Run Clinic Open
Skin problems are the reason one-third of people experiencing homelessness seek medical care. These conditions are exacerbated by increased exposure to the sun and hazardous environments, malnutrition, physical injuries, and limited access…
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Feasibility of implementing a community cardiovascular health promotion program with paramedics and volunteers in a South Asian population Open
Background The South Asian population in Canada is growing and has elevated risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. This study sought to adapt an evidence-based community risk assessment and health promotion program for a South Asian …