The journey of service-learning: Perspectives from medical imaging and therapeutic sciences students

South Africa (SA) is portrayed as a developing country facing many socio-economic challenges. Service-Learning (SL) is considered an integral part of work-integrated learning (WIL) whereby students are provided an opportunity to experience the real world of work by putting to practice the theory that they have been taught. In the context of this paper, SL is embedded in the undergraduate curriculum of medical imaging and therapeutic sciences (MITS) students in SA, in the form of a SL community project (SLCP). Similar projects permit students to engage with a variety of patient groups to better understand their future patients' bio-psycho-social environments for improved person-centred care practices. Although publications pertaining to students' lived experience of SL are available, no study has yet been conducted with MITS students and their experience of SL. The authors, therefore, aimed to explore the experience of MITS students in SA who successfully completed a SLCP.