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October
2005
 Garrett County Memorial Sub-Acute Unit Hosts AHEC Students
Reprinted with the permission of the Cumberland Times-News. Originally printed - Wednesday, June 29, 2005
According to the Western Maryland AHEC Web site, its mission "is to improve access
to and promote quality in health care through educational partnerships with centers of
higher education, community health professionals, and other vital supporters and
advocates."
As part of the Geriatric Assessment of Interdisciplinary Team (GAIT) program, seven
students - in health professional fields ranging from pharmacy to occupational therapy to
social work - and their coordinator, Terri Socha, spent the day with Sara Burdette, Social
Work Services, Jim Cuppett, administrator of Sub-acute; Debbie Hawk, nurse manager
of sub-acute; Dr. Margaret Kaiser and Lance Rhodes, director of pharmacy.
The GAIT program is funded by a University System of Maryland Redeployment Grant
to the Geriatrics and Gerontology Education and Research program at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore. The project is an opportunity for students to experience rural
healthcare first hand through clinical training, including: the principles of interdisciplinary care, health care team skills, interdisciplinary geriatric assessment of host site clients, presentation and discussion of student team care plans, and interdisciplinary geriatric assessment.
The GAIT projects provide geriatric team training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in health professional fields at: Frostburg State University, Salisbury University, Towson University, University of Maryland, Baltimore and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. For their initial trip, students were from University of Maryland, Baltimore, Towson University and Frostburg State University.
Contact:
Bethany
Browning,
Education Coordinator
(301) 533-4318
OR
Terri Socha
AHEC
(301) 777-9150, Ext. 107
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