Our Preceptor Clinics
Tulane’s Student Run Preceptor clinics operate with a practicing physician and team of medical students to provide many forms of healthcare to various locations across the greater New Orleans area.
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Started at Tulane in 1999, Bridge House clinic provides medical care for men with drug and alcohol addictions who have entered Bridge House’s long-term residential treatment program. The students perform full histories and physical examinations while also coordinating follow up care, referrals, in-house consults, prescription medications, and other clinical needs. Additionally, Bridge House provides HIV, TB testing, and counseling to patients in conjunction with the Wednesday clinic.
Housed in New Orleans’ largest homeless shelter, the goal of the clinic is to treat subacute illnesses and to serve as a bridge to established resources in the city for homeless and indigent populations. The New Orleans Mission Clinic expanded its services in 2015 to include a weekly preceptor clinic staffed by Internal Medicine residents in addition to its weekly vaccination, TB, HIV and Hepatitis C testing services.
Luke’s House provides health care for New Orleans’s large Spanish speaking population. Prospective volunteers will be evaluated on their Spanish proficiency. This clinic offers services such as: general checkups, screening for hypertension and diabetes, prescription assistance, vaccinations for Influenza, Tdap, and Pneumococcus, and referrals to other healthcare services.
Fleur de Vie Ruth Fertel Clinic operates jointly with Access Health Louisiana at Ruth U. Fertel/Tulane Community Health Center to deliver primary care to an underserved patient population. Fleur de Vie is committed to two goals: providing affordable high-quality primary care to our community, and creating hands-on innovative learning environments for medical and allied health students. This clinic offers specialized medicine check-ups, health screenings, physicals, patient education, HIV testing and counseling and operate with interpreting services available.
Ozanam Inn is a homeless shelter located on Poydras St. Ozanam Inn Student-Run Clinic is a partnership with Ozanam Inn to improve access to health care for the diverse and underserved population in New Orleans. Our clinic provides in-house clinical services including primary care, TB testing, HIV testing, and vaccinations, and as well as referrals for specialized care.
Luke’s House provides eye care to the surrounding community in the form of an ophthalmology clinic by appointment. The ophthalmology clinic first began operation in January 2016. Since that time, the clinic has expanded to providing eye care twice a month to all patients on an extensive waitlist. Typically, students will complete a focused medical history and test visual function before patients are seen by the resident or attending for examination and refraction.
Grace House, a partner of the Bridge House rehabilitation center, provides both long and short-term residential treatment programs for women with drug and alcohol addictions, regardless of ability to pay. This newly established student-run clinic (operating since February, 2012) currently provides women with their intake physicals, prescriptions, out-of-clinic referrals, and TB testing.
Tulane Street Health Response brings medical services to those who are unsheltered. This clinic recognizes that those who are not within shelters and do not have anywhere to reside are more vulnerable to substance abuse, chronic illness, mental illness, disability, and death. We work as a stepping stone within the safety net of New Orleans services for those who are difficult to reach. By meeting the unsheltered in their environment, we address both immediate and future health needs through evaluation, treatment, and referral to primary and specialty care.
Learn more about these clinics by clicking their names within this page.