Poster Board Number: 184
Title: iPads and Health Notebooks at the YMCA: A Service Learning Partnership between Second-year Medical Students and Seniors
Objective: This outreach program provides older adults in southwestern Pennsylvania with both health notebooks and online searching workshops in order to maintain and manage their health.
Aims:
1. Creates a model of community-based training experience by instilling in future physicians an ethic of service that recognizes the community as a valuable teaching resource.
2. Provides older adults with health notebooks to organize personal health information and to manage their medical conditions
3. Increases both medical students' and older adults' abilities to access, search, and evaluate quality consumer health information resources using the National Library of Medicine's online database, MedlinePlus.
4. Empowers older adults to communicate effectively with their health care providers.
Results and Conclusions: My results and conclusions are not complete yet.
Authors: Peggy Gross, AHIP, Assistant Director and Supervisor, Learning Resource Center; Virginia Syperda, Professor, Primary Care, and Director, Clinical Examination; Steve Sharkady, Basic Science and Problem Based Learning Faculty, Department of Medicine; Florence Lee, Medical Student; Maryann Salib, Medical Student; Rachel Johnson, Medical Student; Amit Sharma, Medical Student; Ben Bumgarner, Medical Student, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Greensburg, PA
