Student Clinical Service Opportunities

Greenville Community Shelter Clinic

In January 1989, Brody medical students first became involved with the Greenville Community Shelter, a non-profit organization, by offering free medical care to the homeless and indigent. All students are encouraged to volunteer their services each Monday from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm and alternate Wednesday and Thursday evenings, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm for special clinics. First and second year students help by obtaining an extended history, taking vital signs, and learning the chief diagnosis and participate in constructing a medical plan for the final approval of the attending physician. In subsequent years, a Women’s Clinic opened to address the specific needs of womens medical care. Most recently, a Pediatrics Clinic has been added on Wednesday evenings to further extend the services offered by the Greenville Community Shelter Clinic. The operations committee of the clinic is ran exclusively by students.

Pitt County Care Clinic

Medical Student Volunteers from the Brody School of Medicine team up with the undergraduate students to provide quality health screening, health education, and health counseling to local uninsured residents. The clinic is held at noon on Sundays throughout the calendar year at the Earl Trevathan Department of Health, Greenville North Carolina.

On site evaluations include blood pressure screening, vital signs, history, physical examinations, whole blood glucose, cholesterol/triglycerides, urinalysis, KOH and wet prep microscopy, hematocrit, peripheral blood smear examinations and cell estimates/morphology. A limited amount of medication is available for supplementing the patient’s previously prescribed regimens.

This clinic provides each student volunteer with the opportunity to learn while providing assistance to a community in need. The clinic operations are administered by second year medical students in cooperation with Dr. Tom Irons.