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Service Learning and Community Service

What is service learning?

According to researchers like Jacoby (1996) and Siefer (1998), service learning combines community service, typically outside the classroom, with explicit learning objectives. It often follows the PARE model (Prepare, Act, Reflect, and Evaluate). Students involved in service learning not only to provide direct service to communities and organizations looking for partners, but also come to understand better the conditions that create "need" in the first place, the context in which service is provided, and students' roles as active citizens in a democracy.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the service learning activity, students will be able to accomplish these objectives:

  • Apply discipline-specific and/or interdisciplinary knowledge and critical thinking skills to community issues.
  • Demonstrate critical self-reflection of one's own assumption and value as applied to community issues.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and sensitivity to issues of culture, diversity, and social justice as applied to community engagement.

Service Learning Process

  • Complete your pre-service learning activities
  • Watch: Learning to Give: Stages of Service Learning (3.5 minutes) to review the steps of the service learning process
  • Answer the pre-service learning questions:
    • Activity: What activity are you planning to complete?
    • Community: What community need is your service learning activity designed to address?
    • Self:  What do you hope to learn from the experience?
  • Visit with the campus preceptor for service learning to discuss
    • The activity you will complete
    • Your personal objectives
  • Complete your service learning activity
  • Complete your written reflection in Leo academic portrait or a presentation at Service Learning Day
  •  Receive feedback on your reflection or presentation

Reflective Writing Template and Feedback as used in LEO Academic Portrait

Campus Service Learning and Community Service Opportunities

Contact: Susan Zelewski, M.D., Assistant Dean, NE Campus

  • Alerus Health Fair Health Screenings
  • Aliveness Project in Minneapolis, MN
  • Camp Good Mourning Volunteer
  • Global Friends Coalition
  • Health presentations at elementary schools with DOC (Doctors Ought to Care)
  • Heart Walk at Choice Fitness Health Screenings
  • FMED 9006 International/Developing Nation Medicine Elective, Chimbote, Peru
  • MediFun Day with Grand Forks Girl Scouts
  • Northlands Rescue Mission, health screening and health education
  • Out of the Darkness
  • Safe Kids Grand Forks
  • Science Day with AMSA (American Medical Student Association)
  • Scrubs Academy
  • Special Olympics Volunteer
  • Teddy Bear Clinic
  • United Way
  • Wal-Mart Health Screening

Contact: Scott Knutson, M.D., Assistant Dean, NW Campus

  • Career fair at Minot High School
  • Counsel Fort Berthold reservation students regarding smoking
  • FMED 9006 International/Developing Nation Medicine Elective, Chimbote, Peru
  • Hostfest in October; perform screening for vital sign exams and triage emergencies that arise at the event.
  • Sports physicals for the Williston schools
  • Stroke support group
  • Trinity booth at the state fair: perform screening exams
  • Volunteer at the free clinic in Minot

Contact: Cornelius "Mac" Dyke, M.D., Associate Dean, SE Campus

  • FMED 9006 International/Developing Nation Medicine Elective, Chimbote, Peru
  • High school health careers class run at our Sanford location
  • Homeless Housing Initiative Lunch and Learn
  • Other organizations that interest the student such as United Churches homeless site, YWCA, Boys Club, etc.
  • Special Olympics: coaching, assisting with games, etc.
  • Young Adults Club (YAK) for young adults with developmental delay

Contact: A. Michael Booth, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S., FACC, Associate Dean, SW Campus

  • Abused Adult Resource Center
  • Big Brother/Big Sister
  • BisMan Mentor Squad
  • Charles Youth Hall Services
  • FMED 9006 International/Developing Nation Medicine Elective, Chimbote, Peru
  • God's Child Project
  • Heaven's Helpers Soup Cafe
  • Meet with high school students at the local high schools in medical career classes to talk about medicine and allied health as a career.
  • Participate in an "on hands day" for Missouri River Area Career and Technical Consortium in western North Dakota high school medical careers class held at the Career Academy on the Bismarck State College campus.
  • Participating in the University Showcase during the legislative session.
  • Youthworks
  • Other Volunteer Activities in the area can be found on the U of Mary volunteer website:  https://www.umary.edu/student-life/mission-for-life/places-to-volunteer.php
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SMHS Annual Service Learning Day

Service Learning Day is an annual event at the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) designed to give students an opportunity to reflect on how their volunteer work affected the community in question and shaped their view of health and healthcare.

Information on SMHS Annual Service Learning Day

2020-21 Medical Academic Calendar

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