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Bridging Community Based Pharmacy Outreach with Service- Learning Principles

A course was designed to introduce Service-Learning and community based health promotion into the pharmacy curriculum. Optimum experiences for developing social responsibility and heighten civic awareness are provided to students in the third year of their didactic training. An interdisciplinary team of faculty provides a meaningful educational and mentoring experience for students. The curriculum is designed to promote community service and heightened sensitivity and awareness of the culturally diverse, social, and economic components of health and illness that impact the quality of life in the surrounding community. The three credit-hour course provides 15 hours of didactic training in community outreach principles, patient education strategies for compliance management; 15 hours for planning the implementation of disease state management models; and 15 hours of portfolio development of a pharmaceutical care service (PCS) program. Through this design the student is able to integrate academic and clinical skills with principles of community health promotion and prevention.