Comment on UK Medical students are committed to CCRU Clinic’s free services — and hope more physicians will join them by Joan Palmore

Fitzgerald, a Louisville native, and McLellan are third-year medical students at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine – Northern Kentucky campus. “I serve as a Physician Liaison with CCRU Outreach, along with my partner,” she told the Northern Kentucky Tribune. The CCRU Clinic is a medical student-run free clinic that strives serve a patient population experiencing homelessness who are overnight guests at the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky (ESNKY). The mission — to provide compassionate, accessible medical care to the underserved population in the community. “What we’re trying to do,” Fitzgerald said, “is provide care where it is needed.”And she said it is truly needed in the Northern Kentucky underprivileged communities.