ABSTRACT
A trip to an outreach clinic in a 15-passenger van is presented as part of the answer
to the forces negatively affecting the practice of academic medicine today. Any subspecialist
in a medical center can use the model if a community can be identified that has a
hospital or clinic building able to host the university group. County- or state-funded
facilities are well suited to a periodic clinic, and public health nurses are well
trained in their management. The Muscular Dystrophy Association is a private supporter
of clinics like this, allowing specialty doctor visits close to home for patients
with disabling weakness who might otherwise be excluded from our increasingly restricted
health care system.
KEYWORD
Teaching - outpatient clinic model - medical care quality
