The Medical College Poli-clinic was opened in 1867 by the faculty of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina under the leadership of Eli Geddings. The clinic provided free medical and surgical care and medicine to patients in exchange for their consent to serve as clinical case studies of the Medical College students as part of their clinical education. The clinic solicited patients with "serious, troublesome, and obscure diseases" from Charleston and its neighborhoods for treatment and study. The chief officers of the clinic were professors of medicine and surgery at the Medical College. Associate professors, interns, and students also staffed the clinic. The clinic operated out of the Medical College on Queen Street two mornings a week. The clinic treated adults and children, blacks and whites, and men and women. The Poli-Clinic seems to have dissolved after 1868 when the College assumed clinical operations at the City Hospital. In 1907 an effort to revive the clinic was made, but there is no evidence to suggest it reopened.
From the description of Medical College Poli-clinic Records 1867-1907 (Medical University of South Carolina Library). WorldCat record id: 19550185
