The phrase service-learning is used frequently in this web page.
Service-learning is a teaching methodology in which students and faculty
participate in thoughtfully organized activities which meet actual
community need, meet course and competency learning objectives, and ensure
equal focus on both the service and the learning that is occurring.
Service-learning is a service-linked, experiential, integrated educational
methodology especially suited to health professions education which:
- actively engages
community organizations and individuals in identifying their needs and
potential for collaboration with health professions schools,
- provides a community
based educational experience which cannot be achieved in a classroom
or clinical site,
- guides students'
reflection on the community based experience,
- helps students find the
tools to take action which they have determined to be indicated,
- encourages life-ling
social responsibility,
- and responds to the
needs of taxpayers and constituents who financially support health
professions educational institutions
Funding Resource: The Johnson Public Health Fund
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