SC-GEC Proposed Activities:

• Develop a SC-GEC web page that will act as a clearinghouse with links to other aging resources locally, statewide, and nationally.
  
• Collaborate with SC Annual Conferences to deliver sessions and workshops on aging issues.
  
• Develop faculty development seminars and visiting faculty scholar series.
  
• Develop curricula in geriatrics for community- based rural and medically underserved training experiences for students.
  
• Design a health career program for minority high school students.
  
• Collaborate with the federal Bureau of Primary Health Care and SC Primary Care Association on developing/implementing a "Geriatric Training Initiative for Community Health Centers and Community Mental Health Centers.
  
• Create a cultural competency-based framework with South Carolina State University for an Historically Black College or University(HBCU) cultural awareness symposium.
  
• Collaborate with SC-DHEC Minority Health Agency on an African American community project.
  
• Deliver rural community forums for health and social services providers.
  
• Develop a "Best Practices-Models That Works" Compendium on elder programs.
  
• Co-sponsor a Rural Aging Summit with SCAHEC.
  
• Develop and deliver workshops on Ethnogeriatric, Elder Abuse, FOCUSED Alzheimer's Communication, and Alzheimers curriculum for faculty, students, medical residents, and community health and social services providers.
  
• Develop a certificate program in gerontology and geriatrics for practicing health and social services providers.
• Develop, disseminate, evaluate a 40-hour interdisciplinary Geriatric Oral Health curriculum in manual, CD-Rom, or web access for classroom, conferences, community trainings, grand rounds, skills workshops for disciplines: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Physician Assisting, Dental Hygiene, and Gerontology.
• Geriatric Oral Health Special initiative: Develop an innovative 3-hour oral health assessment skills workshop for faculty, practitioners, and students comprised of skill development and including oral cancer examination slide presentation.

Overall, 13 of the proposed activities have the potential to offer 40 plus hours of training in geriatrics and gerontology for participants over the 5-year project.

Five Consortia members will collaborate to bring their unique strengths, expertise, resources, and programs to the SC-GEC program. Consortia members are:

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
http://www.musc.edu/

South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (SC AHEC)
http://www.ahec.net/

University of South Carolina (USC)
http://www.usc.edu/

Coastal Carolina University (CCU)
http://www.coastal.edu/

South Carolina State University (SCSU), a historically black university (HBCU)
http://www.scsu.edu/