Service-Learning
Alternate Options
INMED recognizes that personal, professional, and logistical circumstances may occasionally prevent participation in the traditional service-learning experience. Alternative pathways may be available for eligible learners while maintaining the educational goals of service-learning.
Service-Learning Reduced Duration Pathway
For learners unable to complete the standard service-learning duration due to exceptional circumstances.
About this Pathway
Service-Learning is ideally at least four weeks in duration. This length of time significantly increases the likelihood that the learner will experience a substantial growth opportunity. However, INMED realizes that some learners have personal and professional commitments that may preclude them from being absent for four weeks. Therefore, INMED offers the following exception to the four-week requirement. If accepted into the Service-Learning Reduced Duration Pathway, the requirement is reduced to at least two weeks on location.
Quality Improvement Exercise
Reduced Duration students must complete a Quality Improvement Exercise as part of the Service-Learning course. This is an academic exercise shared with INMED faculty only and not to be shared with the service-learning site.
Resources
- Put Quality Improvement Into Practice, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Quality Improvement in Healthcare, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Basics of Quality Improvement, American Academy of Family Physicians
- Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- An Overview of Quality Improvement, British Medical Journal (requires Google Chrome to view)
Examples of an Service-Learning Quality Improvement Exercises submitted by INMED Learners include:
Provisional Service-Learning Sites
For learners seeking approval to complete service-learning through an external organization or institution.
Requirements
In application for a provisional site, the student must provide documentation that the experience will:
- Provide healthcare to a low-resource community
- Be continuously supervised by a mentor whose qualifications are described below
- Be at least four weeks in continuous duration (INMED offers an exception to the four-week requirement. If accepted into the Service-Learning Reduced Duration Pathway (see above), the requirement is reduced to at least two weeks on location followed by composing a quality improvement exercise)
Preceptor Qualifications
Potential preceptors of INMED Service-Learning students must:
- Complete the Preceptor Agreement to Oversee INMED Learners Form
- Submit to INMED a professional resume or curriculum vitae for consideration
- Be fully licensed to practice their profession in their nation
- Possess as least five years of professional experience
- Guarantee continuous supervision of the INMED learner
- Communicate with INMED faculty regarding learner’s experience
- Promptly submit an evaluation of the INMED learner at completion of the experience
Cost
View the cost details for the Graduate Diploma Program that is most appropriate for your credentials. Master’s Degree learners are subject to MIH tuition rates.
Application Fee
$100 – Application Fee for Graduate Diploma in International Medicine & Public Health or
$100 – Application fee for Graduate Diploma in International Nursing & Public Health or
$100 – Application Fee for Graduate Diploma in International Public Health
(Note: no service-learning application fee for MIH participants)
Graduate Certificate Course Tuition
$1750 for the Graduate Certificate Course in International Health
(Note: Tuition for Master’s degree credit is $3500)
Service-Learning Tuition
$985 for Medicine & Public Health Service-Learning or
$985 for Nursing & Public Health Service-Learning or
$985 for Public Health Service-Learning
(Note: Tuition for Master’s degree credit is $1750)
Process
1) Submit the Diploma Application online or Master’s Degree Service-Learning Application (must be logged into Populi to view) online.
Application will require learner to provide service-learning site location & description (or reference to a website that fully describes the facility) and service-learning dates for approval by INMED.
- Provide preceptor contact information
- Dates must be 4 weeks minimum (2 weeks is acceptable for reduced duration pathway participants – see above)
3) Follow Graduate Diploma or Master’s Degree Program Requirements
Questions? Please contact Amy Gilmore at [email protected].
Questions About Eligibility?
If you are unsure whether a reduced duration pathway or provisional service-learning site may apply to your situation, contact the Office of Service-Learning for guidance.