Educating students while recruiting underrepresented populations for Alzheimer's disease research: the Student Ambassador Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing numbers of patients with Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders (ADRD) necessitates increasing numbers of clinicians to care for them. Educational programming related to community outreach with older adults may help inspire interest in future ADRD clinical careers, while increasing awareness of ADRD in the community and aiding recruitment of underrepresented participants into research studies.

Method

The Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (BU ADRC) created the BU ADRC Student Ambassador Program, where medical students, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in medicine completed a curriculum during the academic year that included six educational and three outreach events, including monthly dementia-focused didactic meetin

SUBMITTER: DeCaro R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9533970 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature