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“Health care professionals should know and understand the community they serve and it is our responsibility to teach this."

– Nora Gimpel,M.D., CART Program Director

CART Community Service Opportunities

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The Community Service Core (CSC) provides students with hands-on experience in community-based medicine and health-related programs. Students participate each year in projects designed to provide useful, health-related service to the community. The CSC is designed to reinforce the lessons learned throughout the CART core, while exposing students to settings they might not otherwise encounter as part of their formal medical education.

Activities of the CSC may include, but are not limited to: 

  • Volunteering to work in a free clinic
  • Participating in a local health fair
  • Conducting classes on wellness
  • Presenting children's story times with topics on community health
  • Participating in health promotion and prevention activities (presentations, focus groups, immunization campaigns, walking programs, etc.)
  • Participating in health-screening events
  • Workshops

Students may participate in existing community projects or in the development of new projects in collaboration with community partners. Click here to see past community projects developed by students.

All students enrolled in CART are required to complete 20 hours of community service per year through the CSC.

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Community Service Projects:

The Monday Clinic is a student-run free clinic that began as a project headed by a group of first-year medical students from UT Southwestern. At the beginning of the spring semester in 2006, they united with the idea of creating a clinic where medical students could help care for the community, while improving their own abilities to provide medical care during the preclinical and clinical years. To learn more about the Monday Clinic and how to volunteer, click here.