Ryan
Townshend,
Medical Student
Medical Student
University of Michigan Medical School
Ryan Townshend is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School and will be appliyng into Internal Medicine this Fall. He is actively involved in multiple quality improvement efforts pertaining to reserach and clinical practice. He serves as Quality Improvement Coordinator at the Student Run Free Clinic.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: The University of Michigan Student Run Free Clinic (UMSRFC) is an interprofessional organization dedicated to providing quality, free of charge, healthcare to uninsured community members. The UMSRFC involves collaboration between students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and social work programs. The UMSRFC receives phone calls for seven patient-serving teams that must then be promptly sorted to the correct clinical teams to ensure patients’ concerns are appropriately addressed. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly high call volume, the UMSRFC…