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Health professional educators strive to create teaching learning experiences that will help students develop compassion for vulnerable populations, and better understand the importance of social justice and the relationship of social determinants of health and health disparities and inequities. This session provides four examples of teaching learning strategies (a disparities puzzle, spring break service learning trip, foot clinic, and home visitation for homeless residents) that provide experiential educational approaches that are grounded in community engagement, active partnerships, and social justice.

Session Objectives: 1. Discuss two teaching/learning strategies to help health profession students identify social determinants of health and their relationship to health inequities and disparities. 2. Identify two approaches for implementing transformational service learning opportunities for students that are developed according to the needs and desires of community members.

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)