166614 Service Learning Approaches

Saturday, November 3, 2007: 3:15 PM

Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH , Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
     
This session will describe a community-based approach to teaching medical students the fundamentals of health promotion and disease prevention.

Learning Objectives:
Describe a service-learning methodology for teaching the principles of community health needs assessment and evidence-based health promotion. Utilize the concept of community-as-patient to teach health promotion to medical students and physicians.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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