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Students Who Participate in a Student-Run Free Health Clinic Need Education about Access to Care Issues
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 20, Number 4, November 2009
- pp. 964-968
- 10.1353/hpu.0.0225
- Article
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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.