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The Promise Clinic: A Service Learning Approach to Increasing Access to Health Care
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, August 2008
- pp. 935-943
- 10.1353/hpu.0.0046
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The goal of the Promise Clinic (a project of an academic medical center and a local social services group) is to increase access to primary care for an underserved population while addressing deficiencies in medical education. Students manage common primary care problems, creating access for this mostly uninsured population.