biostudies-literatureFernandez JU.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesHSRD VAHealth Resources and Services Administration601-606https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10902176biostudies-literatureUnknown45(4)Despite a burgeoning older-adult population, the number of health-care professionals with geriatric expertise continues to lag behind. In 2014, the American Geriatrics Society's position statement encouraged interprofessional training for health-care professionals. Telementoring remotely connects clinicians with specialists for education and group mentoring. This dementia-focused, 11-month, 1-hour each, telementoring program was modeled on the Alzheimer's Association ECHO. Our interprofessional expert panel consisted of a geriatrician, a geriatric psychiatrist, an adult nurse practitioner (with geriatric expertise), two geriatric pharmacists, a licensed social worker (coordinating a dementia day program), and a project coordinator. Learners were residents in family medicine and general psychiatry, physician assistant residents in mental health and geriatric psychiatry fellows (total = 31). There was a significant improvement in learner intentions to change medication prescribing by midpoint assessment (<i>p</i> = 0.04). Learners reported few barriers to incorporating skills they learned. An interprofessional telementoring program can help nongeriatric practitioners improve skills in caring for older adults.Gerontology & geriatrics educationOutcomes from an interprofessional, dementia-focused, telementoring program: A brief report.PMC10902176I01 HX000486Agarwal KSFernandez JGodwin KMLindo JGreen EAmspoker ABPickens SAsghar-Ali AAfalseOutcomes from an interprofessional, dementia-focused, telementoring program: A brief report.Despite a burgeoning older-adult population, the number of health-care professionals with geriatric expertise continues to lag behind. In 2014, the American Geriatrics Society's position statement encouraged interprofessional training for health-care professionals. Telementoring remotely connects clinicians with specialists for education and group mentoring. This dementia-focused, 11-month, 1-hour each, telementoring program was modeled on the Alzheimer's Association ECHO. Our interprofessional expert panel consisted of a geriatrician, a geriatric psychiatrist, an adult nurse practitioner (with geriatric expertise), two geriatric pharmacists, a licensed social worker (coordinating a dementia day program), and a project coordinator. Learners were residents in family medicine and general psychiatry, physician assistant residents in mental health and geriatric psychiatry fellows (total = 31). There was a significant improvement in learner intentions to change medication prescribing by midpoint assessment (<i>p</i> = 0.04). Learners reported few barriers to incorporating skills they learned. An interprofessional telementoring program can help nongeriatric practitioners improve skills in caring for older adults.2024-01-01T00:00:00Z2024 Oct-Dec2026-06-03T23:32:51.225Z2026-05-03T03:12:02.026ZS-EPMC109021763764722610.1080/02701960.2023.2253175