Re: service-learning and medical students

At 09:50 AM 05/16/2000 +1000, Nilsson, Anne-Louise wrote:
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>I am currently invovled in a project of community service learning for
>medical students and am wondering if anyone can help me locate research
>articles on the topic.  The particular area that I am currently looking at
>is how we can improve the teaching of medical students through service
>learning  and the most effective ways of doing this (ie: what we can do in 
>the classroom and in the field to assist students to get the most out of
>their experience.


Anne-Louise,

I would start by checking out Community Campus Partnerships for Health at
http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization
founded in 1996 to foster health-promoting partnerships between communities
and educational institutions. 

Then, I would check out the National Service-learning Clearinghouse
literature database (http://umn.edu/~serve). Below is a sample of what
you'll find by doing a keyword search on "medical":

Model Prenatal Program of Rush Medical College at St. Basil's Free Peoples
Clinic, Chicago. Public Title: Health Reports, March-April 1993 v108 n2
p161(5) 
Author(s): Michelle Bardack; Susan Thompson 
Date Published: 1993 
Number of Pages: 5 
Abstract:
The lack of adequate prenatal and gynecological care for indigent women has
reached crisis proportions. The situation is aggravated by the diminishing
supply of primary care physicians who are willing to practice obstetrics n
community settings. Added to this condition is the rapidly declining number
of medical students seeking careers in the primary care field. The Rush
Prenatal Program at St. Basil's Free Peoples Clinic on Chicago's south side
addresses these problems by (a) delivering comprehensive prenatal care to
poor and disadvantaged women; (b) providing a learning environment in which
medical students are taught to be humane, culturally sensitive, and
competent physicians through active involvement in patient management; and
(c) creating an experience that reinforces the student's self-motivation to
practice community-oriented primary care. At the clinic 24 medical
students, working in teams supervised by the three program physicians,
maintain continuity of excellent prenatal care that follows the expectant
mother from pregnancy through delivery and beyond. The Rush Prenatal
Program, which has been initiated, organized, and managed by medical
students, has evolved into a model of education and service that can be
emulated at other institutions. All participants in the program--students,
faculty, patients, and community representatives--are being followed
longitudinally as a method of assessing program efficacy. This
collaborative effort between an academic medical center and a neighborhood
clinic demonstrates that such a partnership is not only feasible but
potentially cost effective and socially responsible. 

Socialization of Medical Students in a Preventative Health Community
Service Learning Experience. 
Author(s): JoEllen Tarallo-Falk 
Date Published: 1995 
Number of Pages: 268  
Notes: Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education. 
Abstract:
The study examines the role of service learning in medical education by
exploring the "Partners in Health Education" program at Dartmouth Medical
School and the impact of the program on medical students' socialization
into the medical profession. The Dartmouth program places medical students
in public schools to work with teachers to deliver health education and
promote prevention. The study describes the relationships between students'
roles, status and student culture, student run service vs. administration
run service learning programs, and factors that contribute to creating
norms which support service. A framework explaining the links between
service and the academic program through applied learning and effects of
service learning on students are presented. (AT) 
Where to Obtain this Resource: 
UMI Dissertation (http://www.umi.com) -- UMI Number is 9534638

Also, there is an FAQ on Education for the Health Professions on the NSLC
site at:
http://nicsl.jaws.umn.edu/res/faqs/healthed.html


I hope these resources will be helpful to you. Good luck!  Ann

PS I f you have some materials from your class that you'd like to donate to
the Clearinghouse collection, please send them my way! Thanks.

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