In April, pharmacy students in the Ambulatory Care Pharmacy course led educational classes at Room In The Inn, a community of participants, guests, volunteers and staff who work together to offer hope to Nashville’s homeless population. The organization serves more than 4,000 homeless individuals each year.

Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy Dr. Ashton Beggs teaches the course to second and third year students each spring, focusing on disease states seen in primary care settings and best practices for patient education.

Room In The Inn offers over 3,000 classes annually, covering a wide range of subjects including health, spirituality, GED preparation and art. Participants earn points for taking classes and can use them to purchase socks, gloves, bus passes or other useful items.

Dr. Beggs’s students taught five classes at Room In The Inn in April. These classes focused on primary care topics including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking cessation and asthma.

Student Catie Martin stated, “I thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent teaching the clients at Room at the Inn. It was a very rewarding experience to be able to teach these individuals about diseases and to see how much they already knew!”

Student Kandice Squires said she was impressed with how much her students learned during the class. “Teaching Diabetes Bingo at Room In The Inn was an incredible, enlightening experience,” Squires said. “The attendees were very interactive; sharing their current knowledge, answering questions, and having discussions with each other and students, which demonstrated they were retaining the information presented during the game.”

Two doctoral students in Belmont’s Occupational Therapy program recently completed their residency projects which provided wheelchairs and professional support to children and their families in San Carlos, Mexico.  Claire Grecco and Tara Harper completed complimentary projects under the academic advisement of Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Dr. Teresa Plummer and with assistance from the faith-based charitable organization, Reach Out and Care Wheels (ROC Wheels), based in Bozeman, Montana.

For her project, Grecco piloted the creation of a local chapter of Youths Empowered with the Helper Spirit to Reach Out and Care at Nashville’s Ezell Harding Christian School.  Through the program, students learned about the international need for wheelchairs and helped raise money to provide wheelchairs for children.

Both Grecco and Harper traveled to Mexico to distribute five custom-fitted wheelchairs provided by ROC Wheels and took photo and videos of the children receiving the wheelchairs so they could share the experience with those who helped raise necessary funds. While in San Carlos, Grecco and Harper also assisted local therapists in fitting over 60 adult and pediatric wheelchairs and provided education regarding their use to caregivers.

Harper’s project was to create a caregiver education manual to support the caregivers to the children who received the wheelchairs.  The manual includes important health information regarding seating and mobility, as well as wheelchair maintenance and adjustment.

Doctoral candidates in occupational therapy each design a culminating project which requires 640 hours to advance their skills in the areas of clinical practice, research, administration, leadership, program and policy development, advocacy, education and/or theory development.

These grants are based, among other factors, on the student’s ability in the respective country’s language, as well as their knowledge of its culture. Mitchell, Riddick and Whitefield represent the high quality of work, both in teaching and in advising, that occurs in the Department of Foreign Languages at Belmont.

Two doctoral students in Belmont’s Occupational Therapy program recently completed their residency projects which provided wheelchairs and professional support to children and their families in San Carlos, Mexico.  Claire Grecco and Tara Harper completed complimentary projects under the academic advisement of Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Dr. Teresa Plummer and with assistance from the faith-based charitable organization, Reach Out and Care Wheels (ROC Wheels), based in Bozeman, Montana.

For her project, Grecco piloted the creation of a local chapter of Youths Empowered with the Helper Spirit to Reach Out and Care at Nashville’s Ezell Harding Christian School.  Through the program, students learned about the international need for wheelchairs and helped raise money to provide wheelchairs for children.

Both Grecco and Harper traveled to Mexico to distribute five custom-fitted wheelchairs provided by ROC Wheels and took photo and videos of the children receiving the wheelchairs so they could share the experience with those who helped raise necessary funds. While in San Carlos, Grecco and Harper also assisted local therapists in fitting over 60 adult and pediatric wheelchairs and provided education regarding their use to caregivers.

Harper’s project was to create a caregiver education manual to support the caregivers to the children who received the wheelchairs.  The manual includes important health information regarding seating and mobility, as well as wheelchair maintenance and adjustment.

Doctoral candidates in occupational therapy each design a culminating project which requires 640 hours to advance their skills in the areas of clinical practice, research, administration, leadership, program and policy development, advocacy, education and/or theory development.