This essay argues that service-learning pedagogy is an important tool in pre-health
humanities education that provides benefits to the community and produces more …

Eighth in AAHE's Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, this volume shows how service-
learning is not only a strategy for preparing community-responsive and competent health …

Background In the mid 1980s, the OSU COM developed the Medical Humanities and
Behavioral Sciences (MHBS) course, designed to be a comprehensive approach to social …

Background: Medical educators are seeking ways to nurture the service commitments of
their medical students while promoting interactions with the communities they serve. Service …

In describing the foundations of our pedagogical approaches to service-learning, we seek to
go beyond the navel-gazing—at times, paralyzing—paradoxes of neoliberal forces, which …

ABSTRACT Issue: The Institute of Medicine identified health care education reform as a key
to improving the error prone, costly, and unsatisfying US health care system. It called for …

Objective The researchers' aim was to assess medical students' learning experiences while
participating with nonprofit organizations during a curricula-designed SLP. Method The …

As health humanities programs grow and thrive across the country, encouraging medical
students to read, write, and become more reflective about their professional roles, educators …

Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy,
genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans, and see the human …

This paper introduces an innovative curricular approach—the Health Humanities Portrait
Approach (Portrait Approach)—and its pedagogical tool—the Health Humanities Portrait …