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Direct linkAuais, Mohammad; Cameron, Julie; Turnnidge, Jennifer; Dalgarno, Nancy; Kolomitro, Klodiana; Pelland, Lucie – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: To describe the creation of an educational podcast with 'living cases' of older adults to support students' learning on a gerontology course and report on students' evaluation of the project. Setting: Gerontology course in a graduate programme. Method: We developed a podcast series based on interviews with older adults in the community…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Gerontology
Park, Juyoung; Hawkins, Michele; Hamlin, Elwood; Hawkins, Wesley; Bamdas, Jo Ann M. – Educational Gerontology, 2014
This study examined whether attitudes toward interprofessional collaboration (Physician-Nurse, Physician-Social Worker, Nurse-Social Worker) held by medical, social work, and nursing students changed after completing an interprofessional curriculum consisting of (a) Interprofessional Education Development Session and (b) the Senior Aging and…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Interprofessional Relationship, Geriatrics, Aging Education
Duke, Pamela; Cohen, Diane; Novack, Dennis – Educational Gerontology, 2009
This study examined first-year medical student attitudes concerning the elderly before and after instituting a geriatric mentoring program. The program began and ended with a survey designed to assess students' attitudes toward the elderly. During the mentoring program, students visited the same senior for four visits throughout the academic year.…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Mentors, Student Attitudes, Older Adults
Fitzgerald, Margaret A.; Chromy, Barbara; Philbrick, Candace A.; Sanders, Gregory F.; Muske, Kara L.; Bratteli, Marlys – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2009
A training curriculum on mental health and aging was developed and disseminated to 32 natural caregivers throughout a frontier state using a train-the-trainer model. Those certified as trainers included social workers, religious professionals, volunteers, long-term care employees, nurses, home health workers, and professional and informal…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Aging Education, Caregivers, Mental Health
Hoffman, Kimberly G.; Gray, Peggy; Hosokawa, Michael C.; Zweig, Steven C. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2006
At the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, we developed a voluntary senior-mentor program, the Senior Teacher Educator Partnership (STEP), for first- and second-year medical students. Using qualitative research methods, we examined the impact of STEP on medical students' attitudes and then assessed the congruence of what is learned…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Qualitative Research, Mentors
Corwin, Sara J.; Frahm, Kathryn; Ochs, Leslie A.; Rheaume, Carol E.; Roberts, Ellen; Eleazer, G. Paul – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2006
In 2000, the Senior Mentor Program was implemented as an innovative, instructional method in the University of South Carolina's medical school curriculum designed to enhance and strengthen student training in geriatrics. This study qualitatively analyzed second-year medical students' and senior participants' perceptions of and attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Mentors, Altruism
Kantor, Bonnie S.; Myers, Michelle R. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2006
The Ohio State College of Medicine began its Senior Partners Program (SPP) in 2001 as part of its commitment to integrate geriatric education throughout all four years of the medical curriculum. For participating senior partners and medical students, the SPP has signified a journey through a continuum of aging. Initial evaluations suggest that…
Descriptors: Medical Students, State Schools, State Colleges, Geriatrics
