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Elijah's Promise. "No matter how motivated you are to get
your life together, your problems are that much more
insurmountable if you're ill or hungry."
For medical students, The Promise Clinic offers not
only service-based learning but also team-based, long-
term clinical experience with their own patients. Under
the supervision of faculty preceptors, the students learn
from their older peers and teach those who follow them.
"Hands down, it was the best learning experience I had in
medical school," says Pheobe Askie, MPH, MD '14, a for-
mer clinic director.
PHOTOS
BY:
STEVE
HOCKSTEIN