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The Community Service Learning Elective is an interdisciplinary longitudinal course for fourth-year medical students that will provide students with the opportunity to gain knowledge about community service learning, participate in service to the community through developing and conducting a community service learning project with the guidance of a mentor, present their results at a conference poster session, and reflect on all of these experiences as part of the learning process. This is an online course with one mandatory in-class meeting.

  1. Learning Modules: Student will review eight (8) online learning modules with information relevant to community service learning.  Most modules will consist of a PowerPoint presentation, reading, and an assignment on the Discussion Board.
  1. Discussion Board: Student will participate in an online discussion about community service learning, answering questions related to module materials and self-reflection of community service learning experience.
  1. Service Learning Quiz: Student will complete a quiz at the end of the course that covers all seven leaning modules.
  1. Reflection Journal: Student will submit a journal that reflects his or her thoughts about community service learning, including personal experience and lessons learned, to faculty once a month.

  2. Community Service Learning Experience: Student will select a Mentor and participate in forty (40) hours of community service learning at a self-selected site. Student will complete CSL Project Plan before beginning project and complete documentation record of hours at the end of the project.
  1. Absatract/Poster of CSL Project: Student will write an abstract and design a poster of their CSL experience and submit it to the Multimedia Department by the deadline. Student must meet with CSL Coordinator to receive guidance on the Poster.
  1. Presentation of Poster: Student will present Poster at the annual UTHSCSA CSL Conference.

Students must register for the CSL online elective by September 1, 2010. Submit an add/drop form to csl@uthscsa.edu or to Stephanie De La Vega at the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics, Annex building room N203.