title: Caring for the underserved: exemplars in teaching.
abstract: The objective was to identify exemplars in teaching pharmacy students awareness, knowledge, and the skills needed to provide care and services to the underserved. A call for exemplars was sent out in spring 2007. A subcommittee of the AACP Task Force on Caring for the Underserved reviewed all applications received. The 3 best exemplars for teaching pharmacy students the awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and skills needed to care for the underserved were selected and are described in this manuscript. Included are 1 didactic, 1 experiential, and 1 international experience. These exemplars in educating students on working with the underserved provide schools with models which could be adapted to fit individual programmatic curricular needs.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco, Fresno Pharmacy Education Program, Fresno, CA 93701-2302, USA. assemim@pharmacy.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Mitra
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Assemi
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shane-McWhorter
authors.forename: Doneka R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: Judy T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hazel H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Seaba
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D017145:Models, Educational; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D012580:Schools, Pharmacy; D013339:Students, Pharmacy; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States