A guide for Interdisciplinary Service Learning

a relevant aspect when addressing health problems of the Chilean population. One of the main challenges we face is the scheduling flexibility, having to adapt the course programs and connecting some common aspects with others of personalized work for each career. However, the online format has emerged as an opportunity to have more flexibility, working with community partners and among the different careers. In the future, it could be an interesting complement to improve the frequency of meetings between students and community partners. Furthermore, it is very important to encourage students and professors to work actively with the community, through a fluid communication among the actors, We believe that it is very important to socialize the activities that are carried out in the A+S courses in general, as an opportunity to know what other careers are doing, and the needs that arise from the partners, and to move towards interaction with other professions. In the same way, the activities that arise from SL may migrate towards activities of linkage with the environment (extra curricular), where times are more flexible and the contributions can be complementary, allowing more lasting alliances with community partners. At the beginning of the semester, the Service Learning program organizes the Teaching Training Workshop: “From the Desk to the Territory: connecting learning with service learning needs”. Methodological sharing previous experiences and having SL training, is very important.

aspects for the implementation of SL in the courses are addressed.

Challenges of interdiscipline in teaching

This semester we implemented Interdiscipline through SL in the Introduction courses of 3 careers: Kinesiology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Occupational Therapy. These three subjects have in common the design of a product oriented to health prevention promotion according to the needs detected in the community partners. Experiences from previous years have shown that the needs detected in community partners towards healthy lifestyles often call for the involvement of different health actors, an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary work. The three careers share the intervention throughout the whole life cycle, and as part of the learning objectives, that students understand the professional role, especially from the health prevention and promotion level. In previous years, we have done interdisciplinary capsules, which are one day instances throughout the semester. where we will analyze the importance of interprofessional work in health, and the benefits of learning together, therefore, including interdiscipline in SL allows us addressing the learning objective, identifying the professional role within the health team and the relevance of working as a team, in a more robust way. We believe that this identification of the professional role is a starting point for interdiscipline in the following years, recognizing, since entering the university, as

Fernanda Calvo, Career in Kinesiology

Alejandra Espinosa, Career in Nutrition and Dietetics