Aiming to improve care of older adults: an innovative faculty development workshop.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction/aims

Internists care for older adults and teach geriatrics to trainees, but they often feel ill-prepared for these tasks. The aims of our 1-day Continuing Medical Education workshop were to improve the knowledge and self-perceived competence of general internists in their care of older adults and to increase their geriatrics teaching for learners.

Setting

Two internal medicine training programs encompassing University, Veterans Affairs, and a community-based hospital in Portland, OR, USA.

Program description

Course faculty identified gaps in assessment of cognition, function, and decisional capacity; managing care transitions; and treatment of behavioral symptoms. To address these gaps, our workshop provided geriatric content discussions followed by small

SUBMITTER: Eckstrom E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2517934 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature