SEARCH Provides

• Networking opportunities with community organizations.
  
• Community and clinical learning experiences.
  
• Mentoring relationships between students and primary care providers.
  
• Preceptor relationships with faculty.
  
• Leadership development skills.
  
• Critical skills needed to deliver health care to underserved and vulnerable populations.

Communities

• Work with students who are potential recruits for their site and establish a reputation with the student populations.
  
• Form a continuum of contact with health professional students and health professions training programs.
  
• Community members and representatives serve as mentors for health professional students.
  
• Develop advocates for the needs of rural and medically underserved populations.
  
• Take a proactive, grass-roots approach to community health care by "growing their own" health care providers.

Students

• Complete a community-based health project.
  
• Begin to understand the need for primary health care providers in rural and medically underserved areas.
  
• Become oriented to community-based systems of care and develop an orientation and commitment to service learning.
  
• Experience a positive service learning placement with time for skill development, community experiences, and reflection