Symposium

Technology (e.g. robotics, assistive technology, mHealth)

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Cross-Cutting

Limb Restoration Rehabilitation

Creating Programs to Engage High School/Secondary Students in Rehabilitation Medicine (848140)

Presenter(s)

• 

  Matthew N. Bartels, MD, MPH

  Professor and Chairman
  Montefiore Medical Health System/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Bronx, New York

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
• 

  Stephanie Rand, DO

  Assistant Professor
  Montefiore Medical Center
  Bronx, New York

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
• JK

  James Keelty, MS

  Head Instructor
  South Orangetown School District
  Orangeburg, New York

Creating programs with secondary schools can create opportunities for both research and technology advances in rehabilitation as well as create an opportunity to expose secondary school students to rehabilitation health care career opportunities. This program will present a successful collaboration as well as discuss the challenges and opportunities that need to be overcome to allow for a successful program.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how the opportunity for establishing partnerships with secondary schools in the community can lead to productive research collaborations and produce meaningful outcomes
• Understand the regulatory and legal obstacles to creating partnerships with hospital based research programs and secondary schools in the community
• Learn how to leverage a relationship with secondary schools in an academic fashion to foster interest in rehabilitation careers among secondary high school students
• Understand the financial challenges and opportunities to create these collaborations with secondary schools in their community while providing opportunities to enhance research and technology advancement