This foundational workshop will help preclinical and clinical instructors understand the importance of outreach/service-learning for preclinical education and learner professional/personal development.  Participants will learn how to design service-learning experiences that cultivate professional identity and meaningful community impact.  The workshop will introduce practical and straightforward toolkits to align with goals, set up reciprocal partnerships, and track outcomes that participants can use to address their institution’s program(s) impact on preclinical learners and community partners. The participants will then work in small groups with facilitators to address core establishment plans, sustainability elements, and/or evaluation for their program needs.

Content areas include:

• Applying a crosscultural and structural competency lens to frame service learning as professional identity formation
• Exposure to ethnographically informed care to align curricular goals with community priorities while considering ethics, consent, and positionality
• Working with community clients and other stakeholders to establish partnerships
• Developing curricula and programming that address community partnership needs
• Funding mechanisms through sponsorship, foundations, and federal organizations
• Engaging learners through volunteerism and/or course requirements 
• The scholarship of outreach/service-learning

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will recognize the importance for and role of outreach/service-learning in a preclinical medical sciences curriculum.
2. Participants will describe the logic model, curriculum development, and funding steps toward establishing and sustaining community partnerships that foster ethnographically informed outreach/service-learning experiences that influence preclinical education.
3. Participants will develop a plan for the scholarship of outreach/service-learning that benefits all stakeholders in the community partnership.
4. Participants will apply a practical toolkit to outline how community partnerships can be structured and maintained to support reciprocal, sustainable outreach/service-learning with preclinical learners.
5. Participants will design a preliminary outreach/service-learning experience for preclinical learners that aligns curricular goals with community-identified needs.