Students who participate in a student-run free health clinic need education about access to care issues.
We surveyed first-year medical students about preparedness for work at student-run clinics, and for addressing patients' access to care, and social issues. Most students did not know how to get uninsured patients ongoing care or medications outside of the student-run clinic. A large majority of students desired an orientation addressing these issues.
Simmons
B Brent
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Dept. of Family Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19127, USA. brentpsujmc@hotmail.com
DeJoseph
Daniel
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Diamond
James
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Weinstein
Lara
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D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D003625:Data Collection; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D015143:Philadelphia; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical; D019037:Urban Health Services