Creating Community-Responsive Physicians: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Medical Education

This volume is intended to help the reader understand service-learning, how it differs from traditional clinical medical education, and how, as a form of experiential education, it can have a profound impact on students, faculty, communities, medical schools, and the relationships among these important stakeholders. Essays include the following: "The Changing Health-Care System and Expectations of Physicians" by Edward O'Neil; "Toward Building Communities of Commitment: Integrating Community-Oriented Primary Care and Continuous Quality Improvement Into Service-Learning" by Deborah Gardner, Andrew Schamess, Doreen Harper, and Denice Cora-Bramble; "Partners in Health Education: Service-Learning by First-Year Medical Students" by Joseph F. Walsh, Jennifer Sage Smith, G. Christian Jernstedt, Virginia Reed, and Sara Goodman; "Medical Students Go Back to Kindergarten: Service-Learning and Medical Education in the Public Schools" by Kate Cauley, Elvira Jaballas, and Betty Houlton; "Service-Learning in Medical Education: Teaching Psychiatry Residents How to Work With the Homeless Mentally Ill" by Richard Christensen; "An Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Community Health Course for Preclinical Health Sciences Students" by Daniel Blumenthal, Meryl McNeal, Lorine Spencer, JoAnne Rhone, and Fred Murphy; "Service-Learning Opportunities at The Ohio State University: The Community Medicine Rotation and the Community Project" by Franklin Banks and Catherine Heaney; "University of Connecticut School of Medicine: An Urban Partnership" by Jusy Lewis; "Initiating, Maintaining, and Sustaining Community Partnerships: Developing Community-Based Academic Health Professions Education Systems" by Bruce Bennard, Bruce Behinger, Carol Gentry, Mary Jane Kelley, Paul Stanton, and Wanda Vaghan; "Integrating Teaching, Research, and Service at East Tennessee State University: Action and Accountability in Communities" by Joellen Edwards, Joy Wachs, Sheila Virgin, Bruce Goodrow, and James Florence; "A Community Partnership in Service to the Homeless: University of Pittsburgh" by Thomas O'Toole, Joyce Holl, and Paul Freyder; "Student-Initiated Community Service: The Community Health Advancement Program" by Sharon Dobie, Bonnie Beck, Melinda Tonelli, Charlene Forslund, Connie Huffine, Deborah Kippen, Diance Staheli, and William Hobson; "The Socialization of Medical Students in a Preventive Health Service-Learning Experience" by Jo Ellen Tarallo-Falk; and "Evaluating the Impact of Service-Learning: Applications for Medical Education" by Sherril Gelmon, Barbara Holland, Beth Morris, and Andy Driscoll.