APRIL 8, 2022 — Since first rolling into town in 2010, the University of Florida Mobile Outreach Clinic has partnered with undergraduate students to serve some of Gainesville’s most vulnerable populations.

“A lot of our patients have no insurance, they’re migrants workers, or kind of looking for some help in between,” said Leon Chen, MPAS ’20, the clinic’s physician assistant, in a recent interview with WUFT News. “So we offer our services: free health screenings for hypertension, diabetes management, women’s health — we actually do family planning and IUD insertions at no cost for the patient — school physicals and checkups.”

“We’ve also partnered with the College of Medicine and we became a teaching place for a lot of medical students and [physician assistant] students to do their clinical rotations and learn how to practice medicine,” Chen said.