Service-learning in healthy aging for medical students and family medicine residents. Educ Health (Abingdon) 2002;15(3):353-61
Date
01/27/2004Pubmed ID
14741943DOI
10.1080/1357628021000012796Scopus ID
2-s2.0-18744399256 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 7 CitationsAbstract
INTRODUCTION: Community-based educational opportunities can diversify and strengthen traditional clinical education. With growing diversity of patient populations and increasing life expectancy, it is imperative that medical students and residents prepare for practice within this context. The Center for Healthy Communities in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, USA developed a community-based, service-learning program in healthy aging to address this need.
OBJECTIVES: The goals of the Chat and Chew program are to: generate medical student/ resident awareness of community health, aging, and diversity; train medical students/ residents to present health information to older, minority community members; encourage medical students/residents to view community members as "teachers" as well as patients; and provide needed health information and socialization opportunities to elderly public housing tenants.
IMPLICATIONS: Medical students and residents gain the opportunity to interact with community members about the health issues that concern them. They also benefit from seeing community members in their real life context and learning about their health-related experiences. The housing tenants help shape how future patients will be understood and treated by the physicians who participated in the service-learning program. The purpose of this article is to: (1) provide an overview of service-learning and the Chat and Chew program, including reflection components; and (2) discuss how this program has become an integral part of the family medicine residency curriculum.
Author List
Young S, Bates T, Wolff M, Maurana CAAuthors
Cheryl A. Maurana PhD SVP Str Acad Ptnrshp, Dir, Prof in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of WisconsinStaci A. Young PhD Sr Associate Dean, Associate Director, Professor in the Family Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
