TY - JOUR
T1 - Service learning in the medical curriculum
T2 - Developing and evaluating an elective experience
AU - Elam, Carol L.
AU - Sauer, Marlene J.
AU - Stratton, Terry D.
AU - Skelton, Judith
AU - Crocker, Deidre
AU - Musick, David W.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15328015TLM1503_08
DO - 10.1207/S15328015TLM1503_08
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12855391
AN - SCOPUS:0042922811
SN - 1040-1334
VL - 15
SP - 194
EP - 203
JO - Teaching and Learning in Medicine
JF - Teaching and Learning in Medicine
IS - 3
ER -