America’s Schools Act of 1994, the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary School Act. In this act, Congress appropriated $750,000 for the 21st Century Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program, requiring that grants be made for “projects that benefit the educational, health, social service, cultural and recreational needs of a rural or inner city community.” Funds could be used for a wide a...

Enhanced competency training is becoming an increasingly prominent aspect of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) emergency medicine (EM) program. Defined loosely as additional training in an area relevant to the practice of EM, the enhanced competency training pursued by Canadian EM residents can include accredited subspecialty fellowships such as intensive care or pe...

As a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education grant, the Extramural Education Program (EEP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry was charged with developing partnerships with community-based oral health programs throughout Illinois. These programs are to be used for clinical service-learning rotations fo...

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INTRODUCTION Telemedicine includes the use of information and communication technology for education in the health sector, tele-education. Sub-Saharan Africa has an extreme shortage of health professionals and as a result, doctors to teach doctors and students. Tele-education has the potential to provide access to education both formal and continuing medical education. While the uptake of telem...

Service learning is a rapidly growing pedagogy in higher education and has come under increased visibility within engineering and computer science. Service-learning has been cited as a potential tool for increasing student engagement as well as diversity among our engineering, technology and computing student bodies. It has opportunities to excite the next generation of engineers, addressing is...

Increasing the use of community-based programs is an important trend in improving dental education to meet the needs of students and the public. To support this trend, understanding the history of programs that have established successful models for community-based education is valuable for the creation and development of new programs. The community-based education model of the University of Mi...

Results from a study investigating the factors associated with variations in the reported use of service coordinator practices are presented. The study participants were parents and other primary caregivers of infants and toddlers with identified disabilities or developmental delays in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part C early intervention programs. Finding showed that different ...

While John Dewey’s learning theory has been widely credited as the essential theoretical underpinning of service learning, lesser attention has been paid to his concept of moral imagination regarding its immense potentials in nurturing college students’ moral growth in service learning. Th is article explores Dewey’s framework of moral imagination and its implications for moral education in col...