Education and Training

The mission of the Education and Training Core is to innovate, develop, and disseminate education and training programs to accelerate the growth of a well-rounded interprofessional work force that will provide age-friendly care supporting older adults. We aim to be a national leader in interprofessional geriatrics education and training for age-friendly care.

Goals of the core

Designing, implementing, and evaluating a high- quality education and training program
Building an infrastructure and community of interprofessional age-friendly experts to support education and training
Engaging in education grants and scholarly dissemination of programs

Future directions

Obtaining additional grant funding to train interprofessional teams and learners at UTHealth Houston and collaborating institutions to provide high-quality, evidence-based, age- and dementiafriendly care, leveraging the Age-Friendly Health System framework
Engaging in quality improvement to enhance current educational programs, including our Geriatric Interprofessional Clinical Experience and Hot Topics in Aging Conference
Building our Education and Training Core to meet the needs of all UTHealth Houston schools, Institute on Aging collaborating institutions, and our community
Developing our Education and Training Webpage to support our mission, disseminate educational materials, and connect educators and learners across the Institute on Aging

Director

Rachel Jantea, MD, MS, is an assistant professor and geriatrician at McGovern Medical School. She completed her master's degree and T32 research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019. Her passion is interprofessional practice and education, and she directly engages in curriculum development through collaborations across UTHealth Houston and the Texas Medical Center. Jantea is a recipient of a Geriatrics Academic Career Award, an HRSA-funded prestigious career development award aimed at age- and dementia-friendly transformation of health systems through interprofessional geriatrics training.