title: Turf, team, and town: a geriatric interprofessional education program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This program provides an interprofessional course to students, allowing them to learn together with each other and their elder teachers.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  include refining their professional parameters (turf), learning how to successfully collaborate with other professionals (team), and determining how to effectively design intervention plans for elders within their own communities (town). Various methods of evaluation, such as journals, participation in rounds, and OSCEs, used to assess students' status are described.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both students and faculty gained clearer perceptions of other professions through their work with each other and the ability to more effectively communicate with other profession. Both also learned, through their relationships with their elder teachers, more about how their specific professions' contributions can affect elders and how elders perceive and contribute to their own communities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This program has been a successful venture. The challenge is now to devise a way to provide similar experiences to a larger group of students.
authors.affiliation: Occupational Therapy Department, University of New England, Portland, ME, USA. nmacrae@une.edu
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Macrae
mesh_terms: D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008281:Maine; D008297:Male; D017145:Models, Educational; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation