Experience in Community Voluntary Service

Catalog description

This elective course provides the student an experience in community voluntary service related to contemporary health challenges. The experience is designed to contribute to develop student’s social awareness towards the pharmacist role and responsibility as a professional and citizen. Also, the course contributes to the development of abilities necessary to provide adequate service to groups or communities. The student completes a total 108 hours of community voluntary service. Active learning methodologies will be used to promote learning through discovery. FARM 7266 - Service Learning Practicum. One (1) credit. Pre -requisite: FARM 7225, FARM 7237, FARM 7227, FARM 7205, FARM 7235, FARM 7217. This practicum is a structured field experience, which expose the student to community health matters through the participation in public and private organizations. The student gets to know the organization mission, goals, objectives, and operation, and also the pharmacist role in community health.