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Session: Teaching and Learning about Community in Public Health Academia
4287.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Teaching and Learning about Community in Public Health Academia
This session will describe service-learning programs, as well as programs that train public health faculty and health professionals on community-based partnership formation and participatory research techniques.
Learning Objectives: Define the concept of community health Articulate the value of service-learning programs Describe the impact of providing public health faculty and health professionals with training on community-based partnership formation and participatory research techniques
4:30 PM   Teaching the concept of “community” aspects of health to health professions students: A starting point
Nancy A. Myers, PhD, Kristin R. Baughman, PhD
4:45 PM   Evaluating the impact of academic-public health partnerships on health professions schools and programs
Nancy A. Myers, PhD, James R. Boex, PhD, MBA
5:00 PM   Long-term sustainability of service-learning programs: A ten year follow-up study of the Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation program
Amanda L. Vogel, MHS, Sarena D. Seifer, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Academic Public Health Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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