Health Professions and Cooperative Extension: An Emerging Partnership

This article reports on the effectiveness of the project Health Professions and Cooperative Extension: An Emerging Partnership in providing community-based learning experiences for health professions students and in enhancing efforts of Extension. The grant project was awarded to seven health professions students in four states. Evaluation of final student reports and interviews of administrators, specialists, and county agents were conducted to determine the extent of service-learning benefits to the student, partnership development in communities, and benefits to Extension. Despite the challenges to implementing this project for the first time, students, communities, and Extension benefited greatly