UCLA Students Offer Free Clinic in Los Angeles

We came across this great story about a free clinic that UCLA students run in Los Angeles:

As a warm summer evening takes hold, a white delivery truck rolls to a stop at a West Hollywood corner and is joined by a throng of T-shirt clad students. Within minutes a street scene springs to life, full of pop-up canopies, tables, folding chairs and young faces in motion.

This is college night — of a different kind.

Every Wednesday, UCLA students studying medicine, law and public health transform a nondescript section of sidewalk near Romaine Street and North Sycamore Avenue into an open-air health clinic and help center for the homeless. It’s also a training ground where clinical skills and compassion are practiced in equal measure.

“We’re here where they feel most comfortable,” said Kevin Norris, one of the program’s undergraduate coordinators.

UCLA Mobile Clinic Project benefits both sides of the clipboards

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