For more than 35 years, the student-run clinics have been operating in Sacramento, providing free health care to uninsured, low-income, and other underserved populations. Operating on weekends, the student-run clinics serve several distinct groups of patients, providing them culturally sensitive health care in a respectful and comfortable environment.  The clinics offer thousands of people what is often their only access to health care.  The program also gives medical students and undergraduates hands-on experience and the opportunity to learn first-hand about the challenges and rewards of patient care and community medicine.