Impact of service-learning placement on pharmacy student knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in helping patients navigate Medicare Part D

Assessment of a service-learning project experience in mobility and spatial data

“…The three specific objectives -related with teaching, learning and service to community-have been achieved. Regarding teaching, although SL has been worked on for a long time, with a focus on areas such as nursing, pharmacy, medicine, business or teaching (Gittings et al, 2020;Griffith et al, 2023;Jackson et al, 2018;Kearney, 2013;Plessis et al, 2013), it is less frequent in the field of engineering. Of course, success stories from the field of engineering examples can be found in the literature (Bodorkós & Pataki, 2009;George et al, 2020;Valsan et al, 2020) but none have been found on walkability in the university environment.…”

“…Finally, it should be noted that each student benefited more from certain activities depending on their area of participation and their prior knowledge. The fact that students from different subjects have participated in the experience differentiates our SL project from many of the previous SL experiences focused on a specific field of study (George et al, 2020;Griffith et al, 2023;Merkey & Palombi, 2020;Valsan et al, 2020). Some of the activities mentioned as being most relevant are processing the layers, developing the web map, planning the fieldwork and group collaboration.…”

“…Merkey and Palombi (2020) used it as a tool to enable students to think critically about health disparities and social justice. Griffith, Steinkopf, and Connor (2023) analysed it in the Medicare training field for pharmacy students. The results showed that the combination of didactic learning, patient-case and SL experience produces better results in terms of knowledge, attitude and confidence compared to didactic learning alone.…”