Student Clinical Service Opportunities

We provide support to our medical student service programs and organizations with a focus on primary care medicine. We work with these programs to support and promote the primary care medical careers in our region. Brody students currently manage two Free Clinics for the uninsured in the local community.

Greenville Community Shelter Clinic

In December 1988, Brody medical students first became involved with the community shelter in Greenville NC. The clinic is a non-profit organization, offering basic medical care to the homeless and indigent at no charge. All students are encouraged to volunteer their services every other Monday from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm for evening clinic. 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 women’s medical care and a pediatrics clinic was added as specialty clinics to further extend the services offered. The operations committee of the clinic is managed exclusively by students.

Please visit the shelter clinic website for further information: https://www.communitycrossroadscenter.org/our-programs/community-crossroads-clinic

Pitt County Care Clinic

Medical student volunteers from the Brody School of Medicine team with undergraduate students to provide quality health screening, health education, and health counseling to local uninsured residents. The clinic is held at noon every other Sunday 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 and local community physician volunteers.

Our programs are committed to fostering student interest in primary care medicine; developing a community-responsive physician workforce; and increasing the number of medical students entering primary care careers.