ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a description of two programs at the Ohio State University that offer service-learning opportunities for medical students. The Community Medicine Rotation is an elective program for third- and fourth-year medical students. The Community Project is a required program for all first-year medical students. In consultation with faculty advisers, students are expected to take an active role in researching various assignment possibilities and in developing proposals for their field placements. Preceptors and the agencies where they are employed are typically very positive about working with the medical students. The objectives of the Community Project are to provide each medical student with a better understanding of psychosocial aspects of health care, the relationship between the financing of care and the delivery of care, and the importance of the community context within which health-care services are delivered.
