title: Community engagement in US and Canadian medical schools.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study examines the integration of community engagement and community-engaged scholarship at all accredited US and Canadian medical schools in order to better understand and assess their current state of engagement.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 32-question data abstraction instrument measured the role of community engagement and community-engaged scholarship as represented on the Web sites of all accredited US and Canadian medical schools. The instrument targeted a medical school's mission and vision statements, institutional structure, student and faculty awards and honors, and faculty tenure and promotion guidelines.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Medical school Web sites demonstrate little evidence that schools incorporate community engagement in their mission or vision statements or their promotion and tenure guidelines. The majority of medical schools do not include community service terms and/or descriptive language in their mission statements, and only 8.5% of medical schools incorporate community service and engagement as a primary or major criterion in promotion and tenure guidelines.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This research highlights significant gaps in the integration of community engagement or community-engaged scholarship into medical school mission and vision statements, promotion and tenure guidelines, and service administrative structures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Adam O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: Rachel Sobel
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Bearman
keywords: community service; education; engagement; medical school; mission; tenure