Increasing Primary Care Physicians' Competency as Geriatric Educators

This article reports on a two-part process to design and disseminate geriatric educational modules for use within residency curricula. First, a "train the trainer" approach was used to instruct expert geriatricians to systematically design the educational modules. Second, expert geriatrici...

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Published in:Gerontology & geriatrics education 2001-04, Vol.21 (3), p.53-62
Main Authors: Rediske, Virginia, Biernat, Kathy, Duthie, Edmund, Simpson, Deborah E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Family medicine
geriatrics education
internal medicine
training models
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Summary:This article reports on a two-part process to design and disseminate geriatric educational modules for use within residency curricula. First, a "train the trainer" approach was used to instruct expert geriatricians to systematically design the educational modules. Second, expert geriatricians, in consultation with instructional designers, subsequently developed ten geriatric educational modules that were pilottested, revised, and duplicated for distribution to independent residency sites. As adult primary care residency sites have limited experienced geriatricians available to provide required instruction, this process represents one method to ensure primary care residents obtain necessary geriatric education.
ISSN:0270-1960
1545-3847
DOI:10.1300/J021v21n03_07