Geriatrics - Dutima Batra

Vision/ Realistic Ideal

  • Establish meaningful relationships with nursing home patients (Manor Care)
  • Enhance interviewing skills, physician exam skills, rapport
  • Learn about issues surrounding elderly and disabled care

Describe the Problem

  • Lacking a relationship between med. students and nursing care patients
  • Medical students need to learn to communicate about the needs of many different communities
  • Benefit both med. students and nursing care residents
  • Reciprocity model
  • Helper therapy principle (helping another person is therapeutic to the helper)
  • Enhancing communication, rapport, interview, and physical exam skills among med. students
  • Allowing the opportunity for story telling, advising, and developing special relationships with patients

Project Goals & Tasks

  • Gathering info from fellow classmates (Does the interest exist to volunteer in nursing care?)
  • Contacting the interested groups and faculty members (Dr. Brown and Dr. Siebert)
  • Survey the med. students for time commitments
  • Find out what factors would affect the med. studentsą decisions

If you are interested in getting involved with this project or you want more information please contact Dutima Batra at dabatra@students.wisc.edu

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