The student-run KNIGHTS free Clinic (Keeping Neighbors in Good Health Through Service) celebrated its one-year anniversary January 31, and a day later UCF medical students presented their creation at the \u00a0Society for Student Run Free Clinics (SSRFC) International Conference in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n
The annual conference drew more than 400 students from medical schools nationwide who are working with free clinics or are interested in establishing one. \u00a0Third-year students Erin Kane, Mike Arnold, Lynda Yu, Kayla Avery, Glenn Gookin offered two platform presentations and two poster presentations on the KNIGHTS Clinic, run in partnership with \u00a0Grace Medical Home near downtown Orlando. About 25 patients are receiving continuing care at the free clinic one night a month and the students have helped Grace ease a backlog of uninsured patients needing primary and specialty care.<\/p>\n
Dr. Caridad Hernandez, the KNIGHTS Clinic faculty adviser, praised students for their dedication in making the facility successful. \u201cThe KNIGHTS Clinic is truly a student run clinic and I am so proud of what the student leaders have accomplished,\u201d she said. \u201cThere has also been tremendous support from the entire COM student body and to date over 111 students from M-1 to M-4 years are active volunteers; that represents one-third of the entire study body!\u201d<\/p>\n
Kane and Avery\u2019s 25-minute presentation, titled \u201cCollaboration for Patient Care,\u201d discussed how students collaborated with community organizations \u00a0to open the clinic. The Diebel Legacy Fund at the Community Foundation of Central Florida provided $10,000 to support the clinic and the Winter Park Health Foundation donated $5,000. \u201cStudents from other institutions were amazed by what we were able to set up so quickly being such a young school,\u201d Kane said. \u201cUCF was as well represented as many older, longer established schools and clinics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yu\u2019s poster presentation on \u00a0\u201cNavigating the Challenges of an Affiliation Agreement between a 海角直播 and a Private Free Clinic,\u201d detailed how the College of Medicine was able to partner with the existing \u00a0Grace Medical Home. \u00a0\u201cIt was an honor to represent UCF COM and the KNIGHTS Clinic at the conference, to show our peers all that the clinic has accomplished in the past year.\u201d Yu said. \u201cThe timing, with the clinic\u2019s first anniversary the day before the conference, just made things even better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another 25-minute platform presentation from Arnold titled: \u201cDevelopment of a Laboratory Training Module at a Student Run Free Clinic,\u201d explained how students were trained to run the KNIGHTS Clinic\u2019s lab and get more hands-on learning experiences. Gookin\u2019s presentation on \u201cPartnership between a Student-Run Clinic and a Private Medical Home\u201d drew a great deal of interest. \u201cAt one point there was a line students and faculty waiting to ask me questions about the unique components of the project,\u201d he said. \u201cThis reflects how fortunate we are to have such a successful collaboration with Grace Medical Home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The students have continually expressed their gratitude to their physician mentors, Dr. Marvin Hardy, director of Grace Medical Home, \u00a0Dr. Pinkal Patel, a family medicine specialist who works at the clinic and also is a preceptor to first- and second-year students, and core faculty members Drs. Hernandez and Judy Simms-Cendan, who helped guide them through the process of opening a medical clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The student-run KNIGHTS free Clinic (Keeping Neighbors in Good Health Through Service) celebrated its one-year anniversary January 31, and a day later UCF medical students presented their creation at the \u00a0Society for Student Run Free Clinics (SSRFC) International Conference in Nashville, TN. The annual conference drew more than 400 students from medical schools nationwide who are working with free clinics…","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":57247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[54315,17963,979,10013,11393,11388,14916],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-57246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-health","tag-analia-castiglioni","tag-caridad-hernandez","tag-college-of-medicine","tag-diebel-legacy-fund","tag-glenn-gookin","tag-knights-clinic","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"\n