Geriatrics Education Team Model Results in Sustained Geriatrics Training in 15 Residency and Fellowship Programs and Scholarship. J Am Geriatr Soc 2016 Apr;64(4):855-61
Date
03/30/2016Pubmed ID
27021702DOI
10.1111/jgs.14040Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85028248760 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 6 CitationsAbstract
Caring for the growing elderly population will require specialty and subspecialty physicians who have not completed geriatric medicine fellowship training to participate actively in patient care. To meet this workforce demand, a sustainable approach to integrating geriatrics into specialty and subspecialty graduate medical education training is needed. This article describes the use of a geriatrics education team (GET) model to develop, implement, and sustain specialty-specific geriatrics curricula using a systematic process of team formation and needs assessment through evaluation, with a unique focus on developing curricular interventions that are meaningful to each specialty and satisfy training, scholarship, and regulatory requirements. The GET model and associated results from 15 specialty residency and fellowship training programs over a 4-year period include 93% curriculum sustainability after initial implementation, more than half of the programs introducing additional geriatrics education, and more than 80% of specialty GETs fulfilling their scholarship requirements through their curriculum dissemination. Win-wins and barriers encountered in using the GET model, along with the model's efficacy in curriculum development, sustainability, and dissemination, are summarized.
Author List
Denson S, Simpson D, Denson K, Brown D, Manzi G, Rehm J, Wessel B, Duthie EH JrAuthors
Steven Denson MD Associate Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinEdmund H. Duthie MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
CurriculumEducation, Medical, Graduate
Geriatrics
Humans
Internship and Residency
Models, Educational
Patient Care Team
Program Development
Program Evaluation
Specialization
United States
