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Presence and Characteristics of Student-Run Free Clinics in Medical Schools

Presence and Characteristics of Student-Run Free Clinics in Medical Schools Letters 4. Jacobs EA, Diamond LC, Stevak L. The importance of teaching clinicians research is needed on whether increasing the number of when and how to work with interpreters. Patient Educ Couns. 2010;78(2):149- bilingual residents, educating trainees on language services, or implementing medical Spanish courses as a supplement 5. Prince D, Nelson M. Teaching Spanish to emergency medicine residents. to (not a substitute for) interpreter use would improve care Acad Emerg Med. 1995;2(1):32-36. 4,5 for LEP patients. 6. Diamond L, Chung S, Ferguson W, Gonzalez J, Jacobs EA, Gany F. This study has limitations. The data were based on self- Relationship between self-assessed and tested non-English-language proficiency among primary care providers. Med Care. 2014;52(5):435-438. report. However, a recent study found that clinicians’ self- assessment correlated with their oral language assessment, par- ticularly at the high and low ends. Fifteen percent of applicants Presence and Characteristics of Student-Run did not provide a self-identity and only 26 392 (49.8%) matched Free Clinics in Medical Schools into an internship. The population actually entering intern- Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) are common in medical 1-6 ship may differ in their diversity or language proficiencies. Be- schools, yet the current state of these clinics is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

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American Medical Association
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Letters 4. Jacobs EA, Diamond LC, Stevak L. The importance of teaching clinicians research is needed on whether increasing the number of when and how to work with interpreters. Patient Educ Couns. 2010;78(2):149- bilingual residents, educating trainees on language services, or implementing medical Spanish courses as a supplement 5. Prince D, Nelson M. Teaching Spanish to emergency medicine residents. to (not a substitute for) interpreter use would improve care Acad Emerg Med. 1995;2(1):32-36. 4,5 for LEP patients. 6. Diamond L, Chung S, Ferguson W, Gonzalez J, Jacobs EA, Gany F. This study has limitations. The data were based on self- Relationship between self-assessed and tested non-English-language proficiency among primary care providers. Med Care. 2014;52(5):435-438. report. However, a recent study found that clinicians’ self- assessment correlated with their oral language assessment, par- ticularly at the high and low ends. Fifteen percent of applicants Presence and Characteristics of Student-Run did not provide a self-identity and only 26 392 (49.8%) matched Free Clinics in Medical Schools into an internship. The population actually entering intern- Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) are common in medical 1-6 ship may differ in their diversity or language proficiencies. Be- schools, yet the current state of these clinics is

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Published: Dec 10, 2014

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