MEDICAL STUDENT OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS FROM A MEMORY DISORDERS BUDDY PROGRAM
Mishy Roy, Michael Rosenbloom · 2024
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Mishy Roy and Michael Rosenbloom report what medical students learned from a buddy program for people with memory loss, in a 2024 study. Half of patients with thinking problems go unrecognized, in part because doctors feel uneasy raising the topic. Most schools teach the biology of Alzheimer disease but give students little direct time with patients.
The program paired 20 patients with mild Alzheimer disease from a dementia clinic with first-year students at the University of Minnesota. Each student spent four hours a month with a patient family and wrote monthly journal entries on the time together. The authors read those journals for common themes. The entries show how steady contact shapes student views of dementia care.
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| CREATOR | Mishy Roy, Michael Rosenbloom |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |