Hosted by the Health Disparities and Cultural Competence SIG
How do we help students move beyond talking about communities in the classroom to truly learning how to serve them? This webinar equips pharmacy educators to design immersive, community-anchored experiences linking public health to patient care, such as study away, community field-trips, and sustained partnerships. Participants will learn strategies to model humility, foster reflective dialogue, and design experiences meeting ACPE 2025 standards while cultivating empathy, curiosity, and context-driven understanding through power of presence and place.
Objectives:
- Describe at least four types of experiential approaches that bridge health related social needs, cultural context, and patient care through immersive, community-engaged learning.
- Identify approaches to support preceptors and faculty to model reflection, vulnerability, and curiosity to learners as pedagogical tools during community-engaged experiences.
- Discuss key components of a Cultural and Structural Humility Immersion Toolkit that connects learning to place, community context, and social determinants of health through experiential and co-curricular integration, ensuring alignment with ACPE 2025 standards.
Moderator:
Alaa K. Abdelhakiem, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy
Speakers:
Alaa K. Abdelhakiem, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy
Sally Arif, PharmD, BCCP
Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Midwestern University
Faria Chaudhry, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP
Clinical Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Olihe Okoro, PhD, MPH, MPharm
Associate Professor and Director of Community Engagement
University of Minnesota