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Medical Students Learn

While Helping Provide

Health Care to Harnett

County’s Uninsured

The Campbell University Community Care Clinic opened in to provide clinics out in communities around the county and
the Spring of 2015 to uninsured patients. The clinic was born when disaster relief efforts are needed.
out of Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteo- The clinic not only provides invaluable free, primary care to
pathic Medicine’s mission to educate and train the next genera- the uninsured patients in the Harnett County community, the
tion of physicians to serve rural and underserved communities patients also provide priceless learning opportunities for the
– Harnett County and other communities like ours. A group of students that help make them better Campbell physicians. Two
medical students in the inaugural class, Class of 2017, worked students share their reflections on volunteering at the clinic:
with the founding family medicine faculty to create a business
plan and get financial support for two years before the clinic Meet Heather Pol, Class of 2023
opened its doors. Now, the clinic is growing. My name is Heather Pol, and I’m a second year medical stu-
dent. A unique fact is that I worked in an all-male California
The clinic moved to a new location in January 2021 to provide prison for approximately 5 years prior to starting medical
better access to patients and more space to see them. Medi- school. I worked directly with the inmate population as the Di-
cal students and interprofessional teams including pharmacy, rector of Pharmacy.
social work, public health, physicians assistant, and nursing
students volunteer and are supervised by Campbell faculty and What do you enjoy most about the CUCCC?
resident physicians. Campbell’s medical school also recently I like that every single patient is very appreciative of our ser-
acquired two mobile clinic vehicles and a large tent system vices. Every patient is kind, concerned about their healthcare,

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