Colloquium features community connection
Partners for Learning and Service, a three-year allied health project grant funded by the Health Resources Service Administration(D37 HP 00876) and awarded to the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences in the College of Health Profession recently hosted its 3rd Annual Colloquium.
Paul Jacques
explains the poster presentation of his team’s project to, from left,
Carolyn Jenkins, Gayenell Magwood and Holly Wise.A total of 12 posters were displayed showcasing community based service learning initiatives that connect and foster community-campus partnerships. Six of the posters, representing initiatives in the colleges of Nursing, Medicine and Health Professions, were featured in an interactive poster session.
Sarena Seifer, M.D., executive director of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health moderated the session, which envisioned a future of prominent community-engaged scholarship at MUSC.
Also present was Barbara Brandt, Ph.D., vice president for education at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center, who spoke on Community Engaged Scholarship. Brandt is one of the authors of the recently released report “Linking Scholarship and Communities,” funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Posters for the colloquium were:
- Promising Practices, Promising Futures: Innovative Community-Based Learning Experiences, authored by Mitcham M.D., Ricciardone E.B., Lancaster C.J., Wise H.H., and Trickey, B.A.
- Partners in Wellness, authored by William S. Robinson, is a six-year-plus collaboration between MUSC and the state’s six Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- REACH 2010 Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition Community Health Information Assessment and Action Plan for Online Diabetes Education, authored by Barbara A. Carlson, MLIS, Beverly Highland, Florene Linnen, Gayenell Magwood, R.N., MSN, Ph.D.(c), Carolyn M. Jenkins, MSN, Dr.PH, and Diane Neal, Ph.D.
- Our Children are our Future: Improving access to primary health care in rural South Carolina, authored by Jean D. Leuner, Ph.D, Marilyn Laken, Ph.D RN, Janet Stevens, MHA, and Doreen Kennedy, FNP.
- REACH 2010: Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition, A Community-Campus Partnership for Eliminating Health Disparities, authored by Carolyn Jenkins, Dr.PH, APRN-BC, Gayenell Magwood, Ph.D.(c), Barbara Carlson, MLIS, Diane Neal, Ph.D., Charles Hossler, Ph.D.(c), Marilyn G. King, D.NSc.
- Community Based Education: Meeting the Health Care Needs of South Carolina and the Education Needs of Health Professionals by authors Paul F. Jacques, Mary Hewitt, Laurel Hayes, Jerry Burik, Debra Brown, Frances K. Porcher, and Beth Kennedy.
Friday, May 13, 2005
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