[gentle piano music] - One of the things I'm most proud of, of being a dean in the School of Health Sciences is that we have the Center of Excellence for Eliminating Healthcare Disparities.

That gives access to all of the students to be able to learn how to go into the communities and to provide care to the underserved.

Our hope is that the students will take what they learn in their educational experience, and translate that into their professional careers when they're out working independently.

The motto of Winston-Salem State is, "Enter to learn and depart to serve", so we want to ingrain into our students the mindset of being servant leaders.

We want them to go out and be the leaders in their healthcare profession and help their practice areas to learn how to better serve our community.

- Our program is big on community service.

We serve through different free clinics throughout our city, and also taking the mobile unit into different neighborhoods within the east-western area.

- We're taking it from the textbooks out there to the real world, so we're no longer in a controlled environment.

You have the ability to look at a person face to face and really share what it is that you know, and learn from them, and learn from their experiences.

There's also a certain synergy that takes place when you have two people working together as a team collaboratively to solve a problem.

There's a connection that just doesn't exist in a classroom where you're actually tangibly there.

- Mobile health clinic not only prepares you for what the real world is gonna to give you in a clinical laboratory science career, but it helps you build that empathy that you need in order to provide the best healthcare possible.

- [Dr. McCauley] Because the School of Health Sciences has so many healthcare disciplines, we work really as an interdisciplinary team, and we not only get the patient contact, the high impact practice of that patient contact, but interdisciplinary teamwork as well.

- [Nussan Olrun] Winston-Salem State, they pretty much, they kind of hover over you and they give you the tools that you need.

It was that whole community type of feeling.

And that, that allowed me to kind of relax and say, okay, maybe I can do this.

Maybe I can get through this.

And I did.

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