Creating Community-Responsive Physicians: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Medical Education (Service-learning in the Disciplines) - Softcover

 
9781563770142: Creating Community-Responsive Physicians: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Medical Education (Service-learning in the Disciplines)

Synopsis

Eighth in AAHE’s Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, this volume shows how service-learning is not only a strategy for preparing community-responsive and competent health physicians, but also for fostering citizenship and changing the relationship between communities and medical schools. This very useful book provides readers with a valuable source of information and inspiration to develop and expand service-learning across the continuum of medical education.

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About the Author

Sarena D. Seifer, MD, is executive director of Community-Campus Partner­ships for Health, a research assistant professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Health Professions, University of California-San Francisco. Kris Hermanns, BA, EdM, is associate director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. Judy Lewis, MPhil, is director of community-based education and an asso­ciate professor in the Department of Community Medicine at the Universi­ty of Connecticut School of Medicine.

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