Presence and characteristics of student-run free clinics in medical schools.

research is needed on whether increasing the number of bilingual residents, educating trainees on language services, or implementing medical Spanish courses as a supplement to (not a substitute for) interpreter use would improve care for LEP patients.4,5 This study has limitations. The data were based on selfreport. However, a recent study found that clinicians’ selfassessmentcorrelatedwiththeiroral languageassessment,particularlyat thehighandlowends.6Fifteenpercentofapplicants didnotprovideaself-identityandonly26 392 (49.8%)matched into an internship. The population actually entering internshipmaydiffer in their diversity or languageproficiencies. Because of confidentiality, we do not know the relationship betweenapplicant languageproficiencyandgeographicmatching of these skills to the local communities’ language needs.