ITD 440 - Community-Engaged Learning Capstone

This course will be a blended learning experience. Most of the student effort will be asynchronously stimulated through Blackboard. In addition to the asynchronous activities, “Capstone Day” will be a single day during the current TIPs program. Students will be required to attend all of Capstone Day activities. Capstone Day will be dedicated to two activities. In the morning, students will participate in two structured debates about what it means to be effective community-oriented physicians; and in the afternoon, there will be a Capstone Poster Session open to the entire EVMS community, and those served by the students’ longitudinal service. The two 45-minute Community Orientation Debates will center around four different theses or paradigms of community-oriented medical practice. Student volunteers will take up the issues and prepare. There will likely not be winners and losers, the whole point is to get students to grapple with the options (a research-based method for encouraging attitude change). Care will be taken to make the debates friendly, fun, and content-focused, rather than adversarial.