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Master of Social Work graduate assistant Shelagh Watkins, right, talks to a patient at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) pop-up clinic on Saturday, Sept. 9, at the Camp Jordan Arena in East Ridge. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the weekend of Sept. 9-10, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus community members were out in full force aiding people to get needed medical care.<\/p>\n

Remote Area Medical (RAM), a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free dental, vision and medical care to those in need, was in East Ridge holding a two-day clinic at the Camp Jordan Arena.<\/p>\n

Volunteers around the region offered services, including approximately 75 students, staff and faculty from the UTC Social Work, Music Therapy, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Master of Public Health and Nurse Practitioner programs and the UTC RAM Chapter student organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemote Area Medical Clinic is an international agency that provides pop-up clinics in areas across the country serving underserved individuals. They don\u2019t ask any questions: your citizenship status, your background, your ability to pay, it\u2019s at no charge,\u201d said Social Work Associate Lecturer and Clinical Instructor Mary Andrews\u2014who coordinated UTC\u2019s efforts for this year\u2019s RAM clinic.<\/p>\n

The Social Work program has had a resource booth at each of the last three Chattanooga RAM clinics (also in 2019 and 2021), providing extensive services to patients and staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is a fabulous opportunity for UTC and the students to make an impact and engage in the community. I also think it\u2019s a wonderful immersion opportunity because every student that goes walks away like, \u2018I just couldn\u2019t imagine this,\u2019\u201d Andrews said. \u201cWhen you see the people and their faces and realize that for some of them, it\u2019s the only health care they ever get \u2026 they\u2019ll drive a couple hundred miles just to have teeth pulled or receive medical care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the services available at the RAM clinic were dental cleanings, dental fillings, dental extractions, dental X-rays, eye exams, eye health exams, eyeglass prescriptions, eyeglasses made on-site, women\u2019s health exams and general medical exams.<\/p>\n

RAM Media Relations Coordinator Chris Cannon works around 24 clinics a year nationwide and said patients started lining up at 3 p.m. Friday in the Camp Jordan Arena parking lot\u2014spending the night in their cars. The clinic doors opened at 6 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reached capacity today in just about every service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The clinic had 40 dental chairs, two vision lanes, five medical bays, one women\u2019s health bay and more than 250 volunteers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re grateful for our partners in the community and neighbors helping neighbors,\u201d Cannon said. \u201cIt\u2019s all volunteers here, so we\u2019re glad to have as many as we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the two days, he said the clinic served 398 individuals receiving more than $290,000 worth of free care.<\/p>\n

More than two dozen UTC Social Work students were at Camp Jordan on Saturday, including Shelagh Watkins\u2014a graduate assistant pursuing a Master of Social Work degree. The Knoxville, Tennessee, native received a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work from UTC in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an awesome internship at Children\u2019s Hospital, getting to provide different types of case management skills and educating parents and the pediatric ICU about different resources,\u201d Watkins said, \u201cso coming here and volunteering at RAM was a cool connection. It\u2019s educating different community members about different resources they can get so that they can take care of themselves and get the resources they need to stay healthy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be a medical social worker. Talking to people and understanding what they find important and what kind of care they need is really important to my future career.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kaitlyn Acuna, right., and members of UTC’s student RAM chapter checked in patients as they entered the Camp Jordan Arena facility.<\/p><\/div>\n

Junior Kaitlyn Acuna, majoring in anthropology and pre-med, is president of UTC\u2019s student RAM chapter. She said more than 20 group members volunteered on Saturday, getting to the facility at 5 a.m., \u201cand we\u2019ll be here until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very passionate about community giving back,\u201d said Acuna, an Austin, Texas, transplant who graduated from Collegiate High at Chattanooga State Community College. \u201cI think it is extremely important for everyone to have access to quality health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cRAM provides that and makes sure that they can get their teeth pulled or get fillings, get a new prescription or just any other general medical service that they need without having to stress about paying for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acuna, who helped check in patients as they entered the facility, said she was interested in emergency room medicine\u2014but was also thinking about rural medicine \u201cso that I can provide care to low-income people or people that don\u2019t have access to quality medical care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of Acuna\u2019s leadership team members, treasurer Kendal Robinson and secretary and social media chair Jaden Webster, assisted the dental area. Both had previous RAM volunteer experience.<\/p>\n

Robinson, a senior pre-dental student from Memphis, estimated she saw 70 patients on Saturday before 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learned from a lot of patients that have come in that they haven\u2019t been to the dentist an eye doctor in years, so being able to help them definitely feels good,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n

\"Jaden

Jaden Webster, left, and Kendal Robinson<\/p><\/div>\n

Webster, a senior psychology major with a concentration in health care, plans to go to physician assistant school and work in women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my second RAM clinic and it\u2019s very important for me because I grew up in a very low-income community. It just makes my heart warm to volunteer and work in this kind of setting and give back,\u201d said the native of Columbia, Tennessee. \u201cI want to work in an underserved community to be able to give back to marginalized communities. It means a lot to me to be able to give back to those who are less fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophomore Meera Patel, a pre-health major from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, spent much of her day escorting patients from station to station.<\/p>\n

The clinic gave her the opportunity to converse with members of the medical community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to talk to some of the dentists and ask them questions about how they entered the field,\u201d she said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t even thinking about that before, but now I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Master of Public Health Program Manager Emma Sampson said a dozen members of that program worked different shifts at the clinic.<\/p>\n

UC Foundation Professor of Spanish Lynn Purkey, head of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, volunteered to serve as a translator\u2014as did lecturer Hilary Browder and several MCLL students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking to people whose first language isn\u2019t English and helping them with their medical appointments,\u201d Purkey said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a really good experience; everybody\u2019s been very kind and thankful for all the help we\u2019ve given them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thinking maybe we need to have a medical Spanish course at UTC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Browder, \u201cI have a certification in medical interpreting, but I haven\u2019t done anything like this where there\u2019s such a variety of jobs. It\u2019s always interesting to see all the people in the community and be able to help someone that needs it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Music Therapy program, making its first visit to a RAM clinic, was represented by Director Katherine Goforth Elverd, Clinical Coordinator Chrissy Watson and students Rose Carroll, Riley Baker, Kori Pilgrim and Abby Cunningham.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all honesty, we didn\u2019t know what to expect,\u201d Watson said, \u201cand as we\u2019ve been here, we\u2019ve seen lots of different areas where we can hopefully make an impact. We plan to be involved in this as the years go on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students have been able to play in the waiting areas and normalize the environment. Maybe we can have a positive impact on decreasing anxiety\u2014if there is any of that\u2014and elevate the mood.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the students played music, Watson said she noticed workers and patients in the dental and waiting areas \u201cjust kind of bopping and moving. It\u2019s fun to make an impact and it\u2019s fun to witness that response.\u201d<\/p>\n

Founded in 1985, RAM has treated more than 900,000 individuals and delivered more than $189.5 million worth of free health care services.<\/p>\n

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Remote Area Medical<\/a><\/p>\n

Social Work<\/a><\/p>\n

Music Therapy Program<\/a><\/p>\n

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures<\/a><\/p>\n

Master of Public Health<\/a><\/p>\n

Nurse Practitioner Program<\/a><\/p>\n

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