Teaching public health courses will see the faculty getting into collaborations with partner communities where students may translate learning from the classroom to the field learning about sociocultural determinants of health which would hopefully inspire them to do public health work after they graduate.
Health profession educators prepare student engagement with community stakeholders for service-learning experiences where students are immersed in the community living, working and learning with and about children in their foster families, people in the neighborhood and with school, health and government personnel and officials in charge of policies and programs for the community.
In light of the new normal where a face-to-face interaction in class is highly discouraged, faculty members are challenged into teaching classes remotely. However, for those who teach public health courses there is the added challenge of (re)creating the service-learning community environment and experiences in online classes.
How do you develop social skills in students practicing physical distancing? How do you (re)create situations of the real world in the virtual world?