Addressing Cultural Competency in Pharmacy Education through International Service Learning and Community Engagement
| Autor: | Augusto Estrada, John B. Collins, Rosemin Kassam, Birpaul Bhander, Yvonne Huang |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Community engagement
business.industry education Service-learning lcsh:RS1-441 Pharmacy Citizen journalism international service learning lcsh:Pharmacy and materia medica Cultural learning Meaningful learning Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mandate Medicine Pharmacology (medical) General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics business cultural competence Cultural competence undergraduate pharmacy education |
| Zdroj: | Pharmacy; Volume 1; Issue 1; Pages: 16-33 Pharmacy, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 16-33 (2013) |
| DOI: | 10.14288/1.0378645 |
| Popis: | This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a course in international service learning and community engagement for pharmacy undergraduate students. The course offered students opportunities to cultivate cultural competency in an international setting foreign to their own—Sub-Saharan Africa. The experience consisted of pre-departure preparation seminars followed by subsequent community immersion to experience, explore and confront personal attitudes and perceptions. A key feature of this course was its emphasis on a continuing cycle of learning, community engagement and reflection. Three students participated, a near-maximum cohort. Their daily self-reflections were qualitatively analyzed to document the impact of their cultural learning and experiences and revealed meaningful learning in the domains of self-assessment and awareness of their personal and professional culture, exposure to a participatory health delivery model involving the patient, the community and a multidisciplinary team and opportunities to engage in patient care in a different cultural setting. This proof-of-concept course provided students with experiences that were life-changing on both personal and professional levels and confirmed the viability and relevance of international service learning for the pharmacy field within its university-wide mandate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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