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Legacy Scholars step up to fill roles as “elder teachers” 28 January
For more than two decades, UNE’s Interdisciplinary Geriatric Education Program (IGEP) has brought students from a variety of health professions together to learn from “elder teachers” in the greater Portland community.
It is an integral part of the didactic year curriculum in the physician assistant (PA) program, which invites other health profession students from the colleges of pharmacy and dental medicine to join in interprofessional team-building to benefit the elder teachers.
Normally, the student teams visit independent living sites in the area to interview their assigned elder teacher. With the pandemic, students were not able to make in-person visits. The PA program decided to set up “tele visits” instead with interviews being conducted via Zoom.