Understanding the Goals of Service Learning and Community-Based Medical Education: A Systematic Review

It is proposed that the principle of community partnership within medical education could train a cohort of medical students prepared to practice in the rapidly changing health care environment—one that now includes an important new agenda of community accountability.

Abstract

The authors found little emphasis on the reciprocal nature of partnerships between communities and medical schools. They propose that the principle of community partnership within medical education could train a cohort of medical students prepared to practice in the rapidly changing health care environment-one that now includes an important new agenda of community accountability.