Student-Run Free Clinics

UT Southwestern and community organizations collaborate to implement student-run free clinics (SRFCs) and provide valuable clinical learning experiences, community connections and insight, research experience, leadership development, and needed public health services to the underserved across North Texas.

Initial student outreach in 2006 has grown to five clinical sites today in 2023, providing services across multiple practice areas. In recent years more than 883 unique students and other UT Southwestern health profession students have participated in this initiative.

Clinic Sites

The clinic sites are located throughout DFW and include: The Monday Clinic (North Dallas Shared Minisitries), Agape Multidisciplinary Clinic, Agape Dermatology Clinic, Brother Bill's Helping Hand Clinic, Union Gospel Mission (U.G.M.) Shelter Clinics (Calvert Shelter / Center of Hope Shelter), and the U.G.M. Smoking Cessation Clinic.

For more details about each clinic as well as contact information, refer to the "Free Clinic Sites" tab on the left page menu.

The Student-Run Free Clinic Experience

Student-Run Free Clinic goals include providing medical care of patients who may not receive such care elsewhere, while providing an educational experience for health profession students.

In addition to service learning for UT Southwestern medical students, other health profession students participate in SRFC work, including graduate students at UT Southwestern’s School of Health Professions and pharmacy students on the Dallas Campus of Texas Tech University Health Science Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy.

Student teams serve patients in a supervised learning environment:

Teams see patients independently before the attending practitioner.
Learners then report to the attendings and see the patient once again with the attending.
All clinics have access to medication rooms and can dispense certain medications to patients, as needed.

For more information, please Email the Student-Run Free Clinic Committee