-
A Patient Advocacy Program Established through an Interprofessional Student-Run Free Clinic
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 26, Number 1, February 2015
- pp. 300-308
- 10.1353/hpu.2015.0024
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
This report describes a student-run free clinic model that exposes medical, nursing, and social work students to interprofessional care of the underserved early in their training. As a result of a new partnership with social work students, a patient advocacy program was established, which helped patients apply for an expanded Medicaid program.