The Houston Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Project

Baylor College of  Medicine's Huffington Center on Aging was awarded a three year grant, beginning in January of 1997, to develop HGITT - the Houston Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Program.  The Huffington Center on Aging combined under its leadership the educational and clinical training expertise of seven educational programs with six primary care facilities to establish HGITT.  There were 419 students who received HGITT training between January 1997 and December 1999.  These students included medical residents, advanced practice nurses, masters level social workers, pharm D students, psychology students, psychiatry residents, and physician assistant students.  Principal Investigator, Nancy Wilson  led the project partners to establish continuing HGITT training availability long after the grant had officially ended.