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We Educate The Centre for Education and Knowledge Exchange at Baycrest has launched a web site at www.baycrest.org/education. CELEBRATING TEACHING EXCELLENCE In March, 20 Baycrest educators were presented with outstanding achievement awards. One winner, physiotherapist and education coordinator Myrna Benderoff, noted that "while we teach the students, they teach us too." In his opening remarks, Dr. Bill Reichman, president and CEO, said that while the awards being presented that day recognize excellence, "everyone who teaches at Baycrest is a winner." The event was sponsored by Evelyn Burns Weinrib, a long-time Baycrest supporter and volunteer. Dr. William Reichman, president and CEO (left), presents a teaching award to Max Lam, a registered medical radiation technologist and one of 20 educators who were honoured on March 21. TRAINING CHINESE STUDENTS In China it's called the "silver tsunami" of aging. More than 178 million people are already 60 or over in a country where the aging population is growing fast and the specialty of geriatrics is still in its infancy. living facility. "Two weeks ago I came to Toronto for my first time and I barely knew anything about geriatrics … but I learned a lot," said one student. Another student noted that the most important thing he learned is that "innovation is actually the seeking of excellence." Last October, 10 top medical students from the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) – the so called "Harvard" of China – came to Baycrest for two weeks of training in cutting-edge seniors care. This is the first step in what is planned as a longer-term education and business relationship with PUMC. The students job-shadowed physicians, attended lectures on topics such as psychiatric issues in long-term care, ethics in geriatric care and Montessori methods for dementia management. They also spent time in our Innovation, Technology and Design Lab and at our Terraces assisted 24 BAYCREST & BAYCREST FOUNDATION www.baycrest.org Baycrest's deputy head of Palliative Care Dr. Daphna Grossman tends to a patient with PUMC medical students Xiaoxiao Shi (centre) and Zitong Li.