Australia, service-learning (and med students)

Dear Anne-Louise--and the list:

Although it may not be of tremendous help to you, my colleagues and I
wrote a (largely descriptive) paper on just this very topic in the
Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community.  The
reference is:

Switzer, C. L., Switzer, G. E., Stukas, A. A., & Baker, C. E. (1999). Medical students’ motivations to volunteer.  Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 18(1/2), 53-64.  Also published as a chapter in J. R. Ferrari & J.G. Chapman (Eds.), Educating students to make a difference:  Community-based service learning (pp. 53-64).  Binghamton, NY:  Haworth Press.

Also, I'm about to move to LaTrobe University in Melbourne as a
lecturer in the school of psychological sciences.  What can you (or
anyone on the list) tell me about service-learning in Australia?

Thanks much,

Art

At 09:50 AM 5/16/2000 +1000, you wrote:


> 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)
>
> I would appreciate your help.  Many thanks
>
>
> Ms Anne-Louise Nilsson
> Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
> University of Queensland
> 4th Floor Diamantina House
> Princess Alexandra Hospital
> Woolloongabba QLD 4102
>
> Phone: +61 7 3240 5821
> Fax: +61 7 3391 4874
> Mobile: 0411 107 994