College of Medicine Outreach Highlights

Health Circus

College of Medicine students created the Health Circus, a Saturday health fair held at a school gym or community center in a fun atmosphere -- with clowns, face painting, snow cones, moonwalk, etc. -- to give people lacking easy access to health care a place to go for immunizations and health and dental screenings.

Stand Tall Against Tobacco

Texas Medical Association–Medical Student Section officers and other medical students at the College of Medicine have developed Stand Tall Against Tobacco (STAT), a three-phase tobacco use prevention program for Bryan / College Station seventh-grade students. Medical students targeted this age group because national and statewide data indicate tobacco use begins early and sub-stantially increases between seventh and ninth grades. In 2002, the American Medical Association chose the STAT program as the national service project for its student section through 2004.

Martha's Health Clinic

Martha's Health Clinic in Temple was started in 1994 by two College of Medicine students who saw a need for better health care for the homeless population in Temple. The clinic is open the first and third Tuesdays of each month and every Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. Health care at the clinic is free and open to anyone. The majority of patients seen, 25 to 40 per week, are indigent and this remains the focus of the clinic.