Hartford Center of Excellence - Donald W. Reynolds Grant Cohort 2
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Anne Finefrock Peery, MD, left, during a work day with Mobile SHAC, a UNC-CH student group that helps elders in their homes. |
Sarah Madry - May 22, 2007 |
Quick Link to the UNC-CH geriatric student interest group's webpage, sponsored in part by the American Geriatric Society
www.med.unc.edu/ags/
UNC-CH Medical Students watching how the patient rises from a chair as part of their exercises in learning falls risk assessment at Carolina Meadows Retirement Community in April 2007 (Photo by the Program on Aging)
Interviewing to find out history of falls, medications, and other things that might confirm or rule out the possibility that the person is likely to fall
Courses - a list of all courses (organized by course number with selectives grouped and listed first) with major geriatric content at the UNC-CH School of Medicine as of spring 2007.
Training - clinical and semi-clinical opportunities to learn about a wide range of elder health issues
UNC-CH websites for Medical Students
UNC-CH American Geriatrics Society student chapter
The Hubbard Program - trains students from multiple disciplines to work collaboratively in caring for 
older patients
Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (MSHAC)
Mobile SHAC has space on the SHAC website at http://www.med.unc.edu/shac
Courses and Training For Health Professionals
Courses
Training
Training for Residents at UNC-CH and UNC Hospitals
Online Learning
These online training materials were developed for the Program on Aging, the Carolina Geriatric Education Center, and the Reynolds Geriatric Practice and Teaching Program by UNC-CH faculty in various UNC-CH health professions schools. They are organized by the intended audience, though some content may be useful to others interested in geriatrics and older adults.
Resources (Links)
(Perry-continued from above) to high-achieving medical students who wish to do summer research or clinical work. Peery used the AFAR Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) scholarship to build upon work that she started at Duke University on early Alzheimer’s disease. While at UNC, she designed a study of the Quick Confusion Scale (QCS), which is a standard evaluation/assessment tool specific to emergency rooms. It consists of only five questions, and it occurred to her that looking into the efficacy of this tool was worth doing. During two summers she enrolled 446 subjects in her study and developed a research protocol to look at how well the QCS works. She wanted to know if there are flaws to the tool—is it telling emergency room staff that people are confused when they are not and vice versa. She is using the small break that she has between graduation and the start of her internal medicine residency to put the data in a paper that she will submit to an emergency medical journal.
Dr. Peery has already written a number of journal articles, primarily on chemistry studies, but also on the relationship of metals, like zinc and copper, with Alzheimer’s disease.
Information on how to apply for MSTAR can be found on line at http://www.afar.org/medstu.html.
Last updated 4/21/2008.
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