Community Service Learning

As of July 1, 2008, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) stipulates that medical schools make available opportunities for students to participate in service-learning activities and encourage and support student participation.

Service learning is defined as a structured learning experience that combines community service with preparation and reflection. Students engaged in service-learning provide community service in response to community-identified concerns and learn about the context in which service is provided, the connection between their service and their academic coursework, and their roles as citizens and professionals.

Community service learning is the bridge between ethics education and development of empathy and humanitarian values.

President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

At UT Health Science Center, our students are committed to using what they learn both inside and outside of the classroom to transform the world around them. That dedication to helping others has earned us a place on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a university can receive for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement.

Our students and faculty deserve all the credit. This honor goes to each person on this campus that identified a challenge, organized a group of committed individuals and worked to be part of the solution. Diabetes screenings for the homeless, Student-Run Free Clinics at Alpha Home, SAMM Shelter and Seton Home, Frontera de Salud trips to Laredo and Robstown - our students did all this and more. We believe that service learning is the bridge between ethics education in the classroom and the development of empathy and humanitarian values, and we are proud that our students exhibited the leadership needed to make an impact on future direction of our nation.