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Sociology

1998

Service learning

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Health Professions Schools In Service To The Nation, Sherril B. Gelmon, Barbara A. Holland, Anu F. Shinnamon Nov 1998

Health Professions Schools In Service To The Nation, Sherril B. Gelmon, Barbara A. Holland, Anu F. Shinnamon

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The Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation Program (HPSISN) was a multi-site, multi-year program designed to explore service learning as a tool for curricular reform within health professions education, and as a method for effectively preparing future professionals for work in a new health delivery system. With sponsorship from the Corporation for National Service and The Pew Charitable Trusts, 20 institutions were invited to participate from 1995 to 1998. The program was administered by the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California at San Francisco. A project-wide evaluation was commissioned at the beginning of the …