Learning Through Service

Program Goal:

To help fellows maintain their motivations, sustain their activities, and enhance their skills in community health service as they progress through medical school.
* Read more under What is LOCUS?, Why LOCUS, and How LOCUS Works
* LOCUS Program Evaluation Dec. 2004

Fellow Goals:

  1. Participate in self-directed leadership skill development.
  2. Explore different concepts and styles of leadership.
  3. Increase self awareness.
  4. Acquire knowledge and skills to work effectively with communities.
  5. Experience working with communities through longitudinal projects.
  6. Become an active member of the LOCUS community; share ideas and contribute to program development.

    7. * Read more under Requirements, Curriculum, and Projects

Mentor Roles:

  1. Clinical Mentors: A community-based generalist physician who serves as the LOCUS fellow's GPP mentor and LOCUS clinical mentor.
  2. Project Mentors: Physicians or other community-based health professionals who work with students to guide development of projects.
  3. Student Mentors: Third and fourth year LOCUS fellows who serve as mentors to first and second year fellows.

    4. * Read more under How LOCUS Works

Mentor Goals:

  1. Discuss how to integrate professional practice with personal life.
  2. Share stories of career decisions and experiences that helped shape personal values and beliefs.
  3. Introduce fellows to community programs and leadership opportunities.
  4. Serve as community service project advisors.
  5. Attend and participate in LOCUS meetings and retreats when possible.

    6. * Read more under How LOCUS Works

Curriculum:

  • Introduction to Leadership in Medicine: explore the meaning of leadership, leadership qualities and styles, leadership vs. fellowship, cultivate personal leadership qualities
  • Leadership and One's Self: develop personal mission statement, experience and employ strategies for balance and stress management, use self-reflection to assess interpersonal, organizational and planning skills, identify personal challenges
  • Leadership and Others: demonstrate team skills, lead effective meetings, participate in conflict resolution dn mediation skills training
  • Leadership and Communities: Health Issues in Communities: identify community health challenges, and discuss how physicians may help address health challenges, experience and reflect on a project-related health challenge
  • Leadership and Communities: Community Health Methods: understand approaches to community health community-oriented primary health care, ecological models, evidence-based medicine; community medicine; public health; population health; logic model and other theoretical frameworks
  • Leadership and Communities: Community Service Activism Skills: improve oral communication skills, written presentation skills, activist skills
  • Leadership and Communities: Community Health Service Projects: learn and use rapid appraisal techniques, surveys, key informant interviews, access health and demographic data, apply community service frameworks to projects, implement, evaluate, and present projects

    • * Read more under Curriculum

Project Goals:

To help fellows learn to apply and refine their leadership skills by working through problems and engaging in community health services.
* Read more under Projects

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