MapleCreek residents educate MSU medical school students

Dr. Betsy Neubig (seated) and 15 students from Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine in Grand Rapids visited MapleCreek on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 17, 2011. The field trip was arranged with the help and cooperation of Rosemarie (Sheffield) Wallace, the nurse in charge of the health clinic at The Terraces at MapleCreek. 

The purpose was to give the doctors-in-training an opportunity to meet with and interview MapleCreek residents about what it is like to be elderly and to learn about some of the health problems seniors experience as a result of aging.

This is not the first collaboration of MapleCreek and the MSU medical school. Last April, we told the story of Nadir Abdelrahman, MD, a native of Sudan, who was the first physician chosen to participate in the six-month Grand Rapids Geriatric Fellowship program of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, including time spent weekly seeing some of the residents at MapleCreek. Read that story again here: http://www.lssm.org/blog/post/2011/04/25/LSSM-Champion-Dr-Nadir-Abdelrahman.aspx

Rosemarie is pleased to encourage the next generation of doctors and specialists in training, with the help of our MapleCreek residents.