Welcome to the Delivering Equal Access to Care Clinic (DEAC)
DEAC Gala
DEAC Mission Statement
About DEAC
DEAC History and Goals
DEAC Volunteer Positions
DEAC Mission Statement
To provide high quality free health care to underserved individuals within the Piedmont-Triad area in a sustainable manner and create a unique, service-oriented learning experience for students of Wake Forest School of Medicine.
About DEAC
Our student-run and physician-staffed free clinics are held at the Community Care Center on New Walkertown Road (2 miles from Baptist hospital) from 6-9 pm on Wednesday evenings.
All patients are financially screened: patients must not have health insurance or government assistance (such as Medicaid, Medicare, or SCHIP) and have a low income (<200% of federal poverty line (<$44,100/ family of 4)). For information on becoming a patient please click here.
The DEAC Clinic goes beyond most other student-run clinics because we offer free long-term chronic care. We provide:
- Routine office visits
- Specialty nights including: cardiology, pulm, derm, sports medicine
- Blood work on-site and outside labs
- Free medications on-site
- Social services
- Mental health and STI screening
- Community wellness and prevention
DEAC History and Goals
A small group of medical students conceived the notion of a student-run free clinic in 2006. The gaols of DEAC are to fill a health care gap in the local community, to provide hands-on learning in a clinical setting, foster a culture which values providing health care to underserved populations, and advance Wake Forest University School of Medicine as globally recognized top-tier school. In September of 2008, DEAC held its first clinic. Improvements and additions since include Specialty Nights, DEAC Mobile, and our annual Fundraising Gala.
DEAC Volunteer Positions
Physician volunteers please click here.
Student volunteers please click here.
- Clinic Volunteers
- MSI - IV, MDs, PAs: Volunteer at the DEAC clinics.
- Resource Pool
- MS I - IV : Volunteer for DEAC outside the clinics.
- Floor Managers
- MS III - IV: Serve as leaders/point-people during clinics.
- Advisory Board
- MS III - IV, Faculty, and Community Members.
- Student Advisory Board positions include: Fundraising, Public Relations, Finance, Volunteer Recruitment & Coordination, Outcomes & Quality Improvement, DEAC Mobile & Specialty Nights, and DEAC Co-Directors.
A current Floor Manager and Student Advisory Board Roster can be found here.