FPB Nursing and School of Medicine Students Team Up to Provide Free Primary Care to the Underserved
The Student-Run Free Clinic set to open in October 2011
Posted 4/29/2011
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Left to right: Clinical Director David Lawrence (SoM, Class of 2014), Clinical Director Alyssa Wagner (SoM, Class of 2012), Clinical Coordinator Trygve Dolber (SoM, Class of 2014), and Clinical Coordinator Erin Stein (FPB, Class of 2012) |
For more than two months, FPB School of Nursing and School of Medicine students from Case Western Reserve University have been training together as they provide primary care at a student-run clinic for the city's underserved. Supervised primarily by family physicians at the Free Medical Clinical of Greater Cleveland, the interprofessional teams participating in this pilot manage all aspects of patient care, from preliminary intake and assessment of vitals to clinical evaluation and plan of care.
The CWRU Student-Run Free Clinic (SRFC), which is scheduled to open officially in October, is one component of an interprofessional learning initiative aimed at bringing together students from the CWRU School of Medicine and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing to learn to work as health care partners for patients. These future physicians and nurses have the opportunity to collaborate not only in clinical care but also in the daily management and administration of a community clinic.
FPB School of Nursing students Erin Stein (Clinical Coordinator), Lauren Singley (Volunteer Coordinator), and Austine Clark (Outreach Coordinator) are all members of the SRFC team.
Source: American Academy of Family Physicians
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