title: The MUN Med Gateway Project: marrying medical education and social accountability.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Access to a continuum of care from a family physician is an essential component of health and well-being; however, refugees have particular barriers in accessing medical care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide access to family physicians and continuity of care for newly arrived refugees; to provide opportunities for medical students to practise cross-cultural health care; and to mentor medical students in advocacy for underserved populations.
  
  
  METHODS
  The MUN Med Gateway Project, based at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's, is a medical student initiative that partners with the local refugee settlement agency to provide health care for new refugees to the province. Medical students conduct in-depth medical histories, with provision of some basic physical screening, while working through an interpreter with supervision by a family doctor and settlement public health nurse. Each patient or family is matched with a family physician.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The project's adaptation of student-run clinics, which connects refugees with the existing mainstream medical system, has been an overwhelming success, making it a model for community action as an educational strategy.
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Duke
authors.forename: Fern
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brunger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013337:Students, Medical
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