A Call for Residents to Get More Involved With Student-Run Free Clinics

Advanced Trainees in Student-Run Free Clinics: Potential Bridges to Critical Gaps in Knowledge

“…While involvement of resident or fellow physicians, otherwise commonly referred to as graduate medical education trainees, with either local free clinics as part of their training curricula or as part of a SRFC in general had been previously described in a limited capacity at the time, there ultimately remained scant information about their roles in this area. [1][2][3][4][5][6] This also meant data on their impacts in these settings were similarly absent from the literature. While we ultimately settled on an operational model reflecting many of the operational characteristics of our residency clinic, I at times felt we were pushing the frontier with our model as we aspired to provide our patients with world-class care and a medical home.…”