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Service learning in the medical curriculum: developing and evaluating an elective experience.

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BACKGROUND: Medical educators are seeking ways to nurture the service commitments of their medical students while promoting interactions with the communities they serve. Service learning is a pedagogy that links community service with academic ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003 in Journal: Teach Learn Med (Language : eng)

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1. Teach Learn Med. 2003 ;15(3):194-203

Service learning in the medical curriculum: developing and evaluating an elective experience.

Elam CL, Sauer MJ, Stratton TD, Skelton J, Crocker D, Musick DW

Office of Academic Affairs, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. clelam1@uky.edu

BACKGROUND: Medical educators are seeking ways to nurture the service commitments of their medical students while promoting interactions with the communities they serve. Service learning is a pedagogy that links community service with academic experience. DESCRIPTION: The University of Kentucky College of Medicine has developed and implemented an experiential service learning elective. The elective is based in local community agencies where small groups of students perform an asset-needs assessment and design a service project based on their findings. The elective is linked to a behavioral science course that provides accompanying biopsychosocial instruction. EVALUATION: Over the 2-year project period, we used multiple methods (i.e., surveys, interviews, reflection questionnaires, evaluations of student performance, and course evaluations) to gather information on the motivations, observations, and assessments of students, faculty preceptors, and community agency partners. CONCLUSION: Linking a service learning elective to a pre-existing course worked well, achieved its objectives, and will be continued

PMID : 12855391 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Carol L	Elam	CL
Marlene J	Sauer	MJ
Terry D	Stratton	TD
Judith	Skelton	J
Deidre	Crocker	D
David W	Musick	DW

Affiliation: Office of Academic Affairs, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. clelam1@uky.edu

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Community Health Planning
Community-Institutional Relations
Cooperative Behavior
Curriculum
Education, Medical, Undergraduate - methods, organization & administration
Humans
Kentucky
Planning Techniques
Problem-Based Learning
Program Development
Program Evaluation
Schools, Medical
Social Responsibility

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