SHARING Clinics need faculty volunteers

The UNMC student-run SHARING (Student Health Association Reaching Indigent Needy Groups) Clinics need faculty members to share their time.

The clinics’ student and faculty committees are actively recruiting physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, pharmacy, and allied health faculty.

“Professional faculty is needed to supervise UNMC students as they provide care for patients in need at the SHARING Clinics,” said Paul Paulman, M.D., a member of the faculty committee. “Speaking from personal experience, it is an exciting and fulfilling opportunity.”

SHARING currently operates a weekly general medical clinic, a monthly diabetes management clinic (GOODLIFE) and a weekly sexually transmitted infection treatment clinic (RESPECT).

With the advice and assistance of an interprofessional UNMC faculty committee, UNMC students from all UNMC colleges manage clinical operations, raise funds to cover costs of care for their patients, and manage all necessary tasks for the SHARING enterprise.

Students see patients in interprofessional teams and are supervised by appropriate UNMC faculty/staff during SHARING-managed clinical sessions.

“With the generous and ongoing support of UNMC and Nebraska Medicine, SHARING currently serves several hundred patients annually,” Dr. Paulman said. “SHARING also provides educational experiences for one-quarter to one-half of all UNMC students during the academic year.”

SHARING clinical sessions occur weekday evenings after 5 p.m. The most pressing need, Dr. Paulman said, is for:

• physician faculty;
• physician assistant faculty;
• nurse practitioner faculty;
• pharmacy faculty; and
• allied health faculty.

“Faculty will supervise UNMC students as they provide care to patients during SHARING-managed clinical sessions,” Dr. Paulman said. “The SHARING Clinics provide a unique opportunity to mentor students in an interprofessional setting as they literally work to fulfill UNMC’s mission of transforming lives and creating healthier futures, among the members of our community who are most in need.”