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Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with preparation and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. (NSLC, 2013).

Our medical students engage in service-learning to provide service in response to community-identified issues and to learn about the context in which service is provided, the connection between their service and their academic coursework, and their roles as citizens and professionals (LCME, June 2013).

Beginning with MD Class of 2018, all USF MCOM medical students are expected to complete a total of 40 hours of service learning.

While students will have until spring MD year four to meet the graduation requirement, we recommend completing the requirement prior to beginning MD year three clinical rotations.

We are here to help support students in their service-learning initiatives. Please review the information and contact us should you have any questions about the program
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*Note on Eportfolio Hours*

Please note that all service learning hours logged in Eportfolio prior to July 31, 2016 will not be transferred over to Archivum until the end of the year. All service learning and teaching experience hours done after July 31, 2016 need to be logged into Archivum to be counted.

Note on tutoring vs teaching experience

Hours that are logged as tutoring cannot be used towards your teaching hours graduation requirement. Teaching experience hours need to be logged as a new activity. For information on how to log a tutoring session see here.

How to log service learning or teaching experience hours

Once logged into Archivum, navigate to the Actions tab at the top. Click on "Create New Activity."

Click on the "Type" drop-down and choose "Service Learning" or "Teaching Experience."

Create a new activity for each individual service learning or teaching activity experience (you will be able to input hours on next page.)

Fill in the fields (those with a red asterisk are required) and click "Next."

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This will take you to a page with more specific prompts to fill out.

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Fill out relevant fields and answer the questions related to your activity. Note that service learning activity reflections will be assessed based on a rubric (see screenshot below.)

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Once all relevant fields are filled in, click "Create Activity" to log the hour. 

NOTE: Submitting your activity hours only logs it in your history and does not submit it for approval. In order to do this, you must follow the directions below on How to Submit an Activity for Review and Approval.

How to view submitted activities/hours

Once you have submitted your hours, you may review your activities by navigating to the "Records" tab at the top of the page and clicking on "Activities." This will pull up a list of all submitted activities, including those pending for review, approved, or canceled. 

 

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How to submit an activity for review and approval

Clicking on the title (red arrow in above screenshot) opens up the page on the individual activity. Once you open a specific activity that you have logged you can review, update, and submit for approval. You can review the information you entered by clicking on tabs to the left (green arrow in screenshot below), update the information you had already entered by clicking on the top right "Update Activity" button (blue arrow in screenshot below) or submit activity for review and approval by clicking on the "Submit Activity for Review" button (red arrow in screenshot below.) 

 

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Note: Once you submit an activity for review, you can no longer update.


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Once an activity is submitted for review, you can track the comment and approval history on the individual activity page.

 

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How to track your service learning and teaching hour requirement

To see the number of service learning and teaching hours that you have submitted and have been approved for, navigate to your profile page and click on "Graduation Activities" in the left tab. A dashboard to track your service learning and teaching experience hours allows you to track the suggested hours (purple arrow below) to complete each year and the actual hours completed. Note that only hours that have been approved are added to the "Hours Completed" column.

 

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Note on Eportfolio Hours

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Please note that all service learning hours logged in Eportfolio prior to July 31, 2016 will not be transferred over to Archivum until the end of the year. All service learning and teaching experience hours done after July 31, 2016 need to be logged into Archivum to be counted.

Shirley B. Smith, MA

Director, Office of Student Diversity and Enrichment

Service Learning and Teaching Experience Graduation Requirement Coordinator

ssmith27@health.usf.edu