Application of Health Systems Science within Geriatric Psychiatry 2.5 Credits/Maximum of 2.5

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The application of HSS within Geriatric Psychiatry elective is a two-week elective course designed to provide students an opportunity to apply the various aspects of HSS within the subspecialty of geriatric psychiatry. The elective is aimed at those students looking to expand their knowledge in HSS, as well as their knowledge of the geriatric population with severe mental illness. Students will be embedded within the inpatient psychiatric treatment team and assigned 1-2 patients whose cases they can use as case studies to further explore the core domains of HSS, with a particular emphasis on population health, healthcare structures and processes, and teamwork and interprofessional collaboration. There will also be a community engagement activity in which the student will spend a half day working with an Adult Protective Services worker through the Dauphin County Area on Aging in the community.