COMMUNITY CASE STUDY article

Front. Vet. Sci.

Sec. One Health

Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1599422

This article is part of the Research TopicEnhancing Veterinary Access Through One Health and Interprofessional CollaborationsView all 5 articles

One Health Clinic Challenges and Evolution: Increasing Access to Care for People and Pets in a Rural Community in Northern California

Provisionally accepted
Kristin  JankowskiKristin Jankowski1*Kimberly  Aguirre SiliezarKimberly Aguirre Siliezar2Jeannie  KnuchellJeannie Knuchell3Adrian  Duenas-RamirezAdrian Duenas-Ramirez4Jennifer  EdwardsJennifer Edwards5Jonathan  DearJonathan Dear3
  • 1One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States
  • 2School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
  • 3Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
  • 4University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
  • 5Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States

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A student-run, free One Health clinic (OHC) improves access to care for people and pets while providing increased training opportunities for interprofessional students in the areas of spectrum of care, contextualized care, cultural humility, ethical community engagement, and relationship-centered communication when clinical instruction is provided. The coordination and implementation of a community-based student-run free clinic (SRFC) that is also an OHC is complex. Programmatic challenges can include coordination with the leaders of multiple training programs, seasonal variation of student and clinical instructor schedules, and the need to balance student experiential learning with positive client and patient outcomes. Internal evaluations of the clinic's scope of care, patient and provider safety, and student preparedness has led to the development of policies and procedures that consider both student training and the client-patient experience. Widening the OHC provider and student partnership to include human nursing was a novel and effective method to enhance care for the bonded family and create opportunities for interprofessional education (IPE) for students from multiple training programs at a single clinical site.

Keywords: One Health Clinic1, student-run free clinic2, spectrum of care3, contextualized care4, Access to Care5, interprofessional education6 Article Type: Community Case Study

Received: 25 Mar 2025; Accepted: 28 May 2025.

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* Correspondence: Kristin Jankowski, One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States

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