Curriculum: Leadership and Communities: Community Service Activism Skills

Goal: Develop skills to work effectively with communities

Objectives:

  • Enhance oral communication skills including:
    • radio and television interviews
    • public speaking
    • testifying for legislation
    • lobbying
    • lecturing (professional and public education)
    • interviewing others.
  • Improve written presentations including:
    • letters to the editor
    • resolutions
    • grant proposals
    • coalition building (research paper)
  • Engage in several different approaches to activities, including:
    • nonviolence/nonviolent resistance
    • community organizing
  • Present projects to a LOCUS and/or Physicians as Health Activists audience

Methods:

  • Lectures/Presentations and activities
  • Presentations of projects at LOCUS retreats or meetings.
  • Presentation of final product
  • Attend Physicians as Health Activists Course

Readings:

  • Strongly encouraged:
    • To be announced
  • Optional:

Evaluation:

  • Attend and participate in LOCUS events.
  • Conduct self-evaluation
  • Complete questions on LOCUS survey
  • Complete final project presentation

Comments? Feedback? webmaster@fammed.wisc.edu
© 2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine