Medical Clinic Swot Analysis Paper

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SWOT ANALYSIS:
Strengths:
By encouraging students to pursue medical fields, schools and students across the nation have embraced these training opportunities they have been providing in underserved areas. For example, through the Primary Care Progress groups, many students and faculty at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are working with the Aurora community to create an interdisciplinary student-run free clinic. This free clinic is meant to meet the needs of the underserved population in the community ( VanderWielen et al, 2015). The International/Inner City/Rural Preceptorship program at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine is paired up with a local free clinic to give services, which is enhanced teaching practice experience for program participants and also providing the community with medical services. The DAWN clinic (Dedicated to Aurora’s
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Opportunities: The United States is home to more than 1,000 free clinic organizations that operate in 49 states (excluding Alaska) and the District of Columbia. Over 57 million individuals live in 5,864 designated primary care shortage areas in the United States. Deficit of primary care providers in four primary care specialties: general or family practice, general internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology is generally noticed, if the students can serve the uninsured in these areas it would benefit the Nation (VanderWielen et al, 2015).
These problems of the community around us with uninsured population are within our reach, and we have a social responsibility as health care professionals to rise to the challenge and enact change (Choi, 2015).