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The University of Montana
Tuesday
Speakers presenting from Missoula's UM Continuing Education building and from Billings' Mansfield Health Education Center, and broadcast to interactive videoconference sites around Montana
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The goal of this program is to increase the expertise of health care professionals, health care faculty, and students in the areas of knowledge of health literacy, risk factors for low health literacy, and mechanisms to improve health literacy for elderly patients, especially at risk rural and American Indian elderly.
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Holiday Inn Parkside
Missoula, Montana
The purpose of the MTGEC is to provide geriatric education and training for Montana health professionals, higher education faculty, and health professions students so that they might better meet the needs of the increasingly aged population of this state. Programming continues to be developed and refined for a variety of health professionals including nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, physicians, physician assistants, and social workers.
Funding
HRSA: D31 HP08817
$1,074,160.00 – 100% federally funded
September 1, 2007 to June 30, 2010
Enhance your knowledge and skills related to providing health care for the elderly by selecting from over thirty modules to meet your learning objectives. Continuing education and/or academic credit are available. In addition, there is a 45-hour certificate program. The modules are divided into four thematic sections:
MTGEC partnered with the Skaggs School of Pharmacy IPHARM (Improving Health Among Rural Montanans) program in order to provide interdisciplinary clinical training in geriatrics for health professions students. Wellness testing is conducted across the state in a variety of settings including assisted living centers, nursing homes, pharmacies and senior centers. There is follow-up with geriatric clients who have abnormal results.
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MTGECGraphics, design and layout by Rianna Trujillo, Spectral Fusion Designs. Copyright The University of Montana 2008. All rights reserved.