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Integrating Community Service into Your Career Success

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This chapter provides instruction on how applicants can harness their passion and engagement in community service into scholarly activities that can facilitate their professional development and competitiveness to health professions schools. Community service, community engagement, and service learning are defined. Exercises are included to help readers align their personal values and mission to community service projects. Advice is provided on how to gain institutional support for community-focused projects. The chapter concludes by presenting the Kern model for curriculum development as a framework by which you can turn education-related community-focused projects into scholarly activities.

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  1. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

    Clydell “Tré” Adams III BS, MD Candidate

  2. Professor & Chair, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Samuel D. Harris Professor of Pediatrics, University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA, USA

    A. Jeffrey Wood DDS

  3. University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Damon Alvarez BA, BSPS, PharmD Candidate

  4. Executive Associate Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Center, Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), UNM, Interim Executive Diversity Officer, Professor with Tenure & Vice Chair DEI, Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM, USA

    John Paul (J.P.) Sánchez MD, MPH

  5. President, Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Inc. (BNGAP), NYC, NY, USA

    John Paul (J.P.) Sánchez MD, MPH

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    John Paul (J.P.) Sánchez

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Adams, C.“., Wood, A.J., Alvarez, D., (J.P.) Sánchez, J.P. (2022). Integrating Community Service into Your Career Success. In: Sánchez, J.P.(., Brutus, N.N. (eds) Health Professions and Academia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94223-6_4

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