Community-Based Advocacy Project
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Community-Based Learning: Partner with TMU’s School of Medicine
The School of Medicine is committed to educating students to become compassionate, culturally respectful, and future-ready clinicians who provide outstanding holistic healthcare and who lead in health system transformation. Community-based, service learning will be a critical component of our curriculum, integrating real-world experience into medical education.
Become a community-based learning partner
We are seeking community organizations across Brampton and Peel Region to collaborate with medical students on a community-based advocacy project (CAP). The project goals include:
- Co-creation and development of an initiative to address a community-identified need, with a defined action and eventual evaluation.
- Positively impact an economic, social, cultural or environmental situation and ultimately improve health and access to healthcare for various equity-deserving groups.
The project teams will be made up of four medical students, and the scope of the product should be educational and creative in nature, potentially ranging from a strategic document to advocacy work to a multimedia presentation.
Why should you partner with us?
While you will be helping our students develop skills and experience in advocacy, social justice and project management, participating in a CAP will provide countless benefits to your organization, including:
- Access to dedicated assistance to help advance organizational goals
- A new perspective to the delivery of programs, services and products
- Attracting and building a new talent pipeline
- Building meaningful relationships with the community and the School of Medicine
Interested in partnering with us? Fill out the form below.
Community-Based Advocacy Project Details
Participation in a CAP will include:
- Community organizations will participate in an interview (or Community Fair) where they can provide an overview to CAP medical student groups, with information, including:
- Description of their organization (i.e. mission/vision/values)
- Present questions and/or opportunities for enhancement or describe areas that require diligence and advocacy to address
- Potential ideas for a desired project area
- The medical student group would be asked to demonstrate both finding opportunities for innovation and actually creating and driving the innovating
- The proposed solutions would not have to be provided to them by you
- CAP groups, consisting of four medical students per group, will review the information provided and select a community organization to work with.
- An initial meeting between the CAP group and community organization will be scheduled, followed by at least two check-ins to address questions that may arise.
- The community organization must approve a CAP proposal made by the CAP group prior to the launch of their project.
- For approximately 12-14 months (with a pause for summer), the CAP group will spend three hours per month working on the project on site with the community organization .
- School of Medicine faculty will provide mentorship to the CAP group and will act as a liaison with the community organization, as required.