Teaching clinic

A teaching clinic is an outpatient clinic that provides health care for ambulatory patients - as opposed to inpatients treated in a hospital. Teaching clinics traditionally are operated by educational facilities and provide free or low-cost services to patients.

Teaching clinics differ from standard health clinics in that treatment is performed by graduate students under the supervision of licensed health care providers or by licensed health care providers while graduate students observe.

Teaching clinics serve the dual purpose of providing a setting for students in the health care profession to learn and practice skills, while simultaneously offering lower cost treatments to patients.

Patients

In some instances, patient groups may be based in part upon a paradigm in which friends and family are commonly recruited to be patients.

See also

• Teaching hospital

Further reading

• Dowling S (1979). "The teaching clinic: a supervisory alternative". ASHA. 21 (9): 646–9. PMID 391248.
• Kempe, Allison; Lowery, N.Elaine; Pearson, Kellyn A.; Renfrew, Brenda L.; Jones, Jennifer S.; Steiner, John F.; Berman, Stephen (2001). "Immunization recall: Effectiveness and barriers to success in an urban teaching clinic". The Journal of Pediatrics. 139 (5): 630–635. doi:10.1067/mpd.2001.117069. PMID 11713438.
• Nyiendo, Joanne; Haldeman, Scott (1987). "A Prospective Study of 2,000 Patients Attending a Chiropractic College Teaching Clinic". Medical Care. 25 (6): 516–527. doi:10.1097/00005650-198706000-00006. JSTOR 3765334. PMID 3695660. S2CID 36643072.
• Gennis Virginia M (1993). "Supervision in the outpatient clinic". Journal of General Internal Medicine. 8 (7): 378–380. doi:10.1007/BF02600077. PMID 8192744. S2CID 2169994.
• Mincey, B. A.; Parkulo, M. A. (2001). "Antibiotic prescribing practices in a teaching clinic: comparison of resident and staff physicians". Southern Medical Journal. 94 (4): 365–9. doi:10.1097/00007611-200194040-00001. PMID 11332898.
• Rajendran, Dévan; Mullinger, Brenda; Fossum, Christian; Collins, Peter; Froud, Robert (2009). "Monitoring self-reported adverse events: A prospective, pilot study in a UK osteopathic teaching clinic". International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine. 12 (2): 49–55. doi:10.1016/j.ijosm.2008.08.031.
• Klitzner, Thomas S.; Rabbitt, Leslie A.; Chang, Ruey-Kang R. (2010). "Benefits of Care Coordination for Children with Complex Disease: A Pilot Medical Home Project in a Resident Teaching Clinic". The Journal of Pediatrics. 156 (6): 1006–1010. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.12.012. PMID 20223482.
• Gelskey Shirley C (1998). "Factors associated with adult periodontitis in a dental teaching clinic population". Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 26 (4): 226–232. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1998.tb01955.x. hdl:1993/17648. PMID 9758422.