4287.0 Teaching and Learning about Community in Public Health Academia

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 4:30 PM
Oral
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.
Session 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 and 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 and 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, PhD MHS and Sarena D. Seifer, MD
     

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Organized by: Academic Public Health Caucus

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

See more of: Academic Public Health Caucus
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