@article{58ef164185c54433bfa71379c80bdecd,
title = "Integrating service learning into the curriculum: Lessons from the field",
abstract = "The authors, representing two of the {"}signature{"} community service learning (CSL) programs in the 2010 Flexner Centenary volume of Academic Medicine, provide details of their programs-Frontera de Salud, a community-based program at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, a clinic-based program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine-specific to the task of integrating CSL into the medical school curriculum. They explain the nature and purpose of CSL, note gaps in the present curriculum which CSL aims to fill and highlight elements of CSL that are highly pertinent to Association of American Medical Colleges, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Liaison Committee on Medical Education guidelines for undergraduate and graduate medical education. They also discuss barriers to the integration of CSL into the medical school curriculum and detail ways to overcome the logistic and fiscal challenges involved in making this highly effective and rewarding educational experience available to students of medicine.",
author = "Smith, {Kirk L.} and Yasmin Meah and Belinda Reininger and Miles Farr and Jessica Zeidman and Thomas, {David C.}",
note = "Funding Information: (6) The very nature of CSL is helpful in surmounting financial challenges: communities sustain themselves, partners (often non-profits) maintain their own facil-ities, community-based preceptors are either volunteers or employed by local partners and, once support structures are in place, experience itself is free. Still, academic institutions must bear a measure of the cost. In this regard, it is worth noting that CSL, by benefiting the academic institution{\textquoteright}s public image, improves public and legislative support for host institutions. At the federal level, support for CSL is evident in increased funding for community-based participatory research by the National Institutes of Health and, in more direct fashion, in the National and Community Service Trust Act which has established a funding mechanism for CSL through Learn and Serve America (LSA). The LSA provides grants to higher-education institutions in the 250–500 thousand dollar range, sufficient to advance significant integration of CSL at individual institutions and certainly enough to make worthwhile the initiation of pilot programs (Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Research and Policy Development 2008).",
year = "2013",
month = may,
doi = "10.3109/0142159X.2012.735383",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "35",
pages = "e1139--e1148",
journal = "Medical Teacher",
issn = "0142-159X",
publisher = "Informa Healthcare",
number = "5",
}