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Landon Center on Aging  :  Geriatric Education & Training

Faculty Development in Geriatric Education


The goal of this faculty development program will be to create a geriatric-oriented faculty on the Kansas City and Wichita campuses who will support the undergraduate medical student and post-graduate resident geriatric medical education programs of our institution. Four clinician educators will be recruited as faculty scholars in grant years 2 through 4, with the goal of training 10 individual scholars over the three years of faculty training. Based on individual faculty development goals and progress, faculty scholars may participate in more than one year of the program. A second year of faculty development would require an individualized, intensive development of an educational product or program by the faculty development.

Each faculty scholar will devote at least 15 percent of their academic time for at least one academic year to the faculty development program. Faculty scholars will receive financial support for 10 percent of their time to participate in structured faculty development activities for one half day per week. Sections or departments will be expected to contribute an additional 5 percent of each scholar’s time, which can be existing protected time for educational programming. Scholars will spend this 5 percent of their academic time each week in supervised scholarly activities supporting geriatric education at the departmental or institutional level. Faculty scholars will be assigned a mentor from the Kansas Reynolds Program core faculty who will advise their scholar in the design and implementation of at least one educational project for each year of participation.

Course Content: Clinical Teaching: Lead by Dr. Mary McDonald

Based on the clinical teaching curriculum developed by the Stanford Faculty Development Center, this series will provide a framework for analyzing teaching episodes to improve clinical teaching skills and to enhance versatility. The seminars will include didactic lectures, small-group discussions, videotape review, role-playing, personal goal setting, and selected readings. Dr. Mary McDonald has attended the Stanford train-the-trainer residential program. Mentors will be integrally involved in this phase of their faculty scholar’s program through personal goal setting and direct observation of teaching.

Course sessions:

Learning Climate
Control of Session
Communication of Goals
Understanding and Retention
Evaluation
Feedback
Self-directed Learning
Integration of Teaching Skills

Evidence-Based Medicine/Information Mastery: Lead by Dr. Sally Rigler

Based on the work of Slawson and Shaughnessary, faculty scholars will learn the techniques of Geriatric Information Mastery. Information mastery encompasses a model to navigate through the “medical information jungle” by applying a systematic process. This model incorporates the requirement of patient-specific relevance to the endeavor of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) to provide greater practical clinical and teaching experience to our scholars. Scholars will learn to generate specifically defined and structured clinical questions from clinical encounters with older adult patients. The answer to the clinical question will then be researched from the primary literature by critical appraisals and/or from the secondary evidenced-based literature.

Course sessions:

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Workshops

EBM in Your Specialty
When Evidence is Conflicting
Are Older Adults Represented in the EBM-Based Literature in Your Field?
Being an Astute Consumer of Data and a Wise Information Advisor to Your Patients

Curriculum Development: Lead by Dr. Mary McDonald

The curriculum development session will be based on the text Curriculum Development for Medical Education.  A text will be provided to each scholar. The following subjects will be discussed in the class setting.

Problem Identification and Needs Assessment
Needs Assessment of Targeted Learners
Goals and Objectives
Educational Strategies
Implementation
Evaluation and Feedback
Curriculum Maintenance and Enhancement
Dissemination

Clinical Geriatrics

Faculty scholars will participate in small-group interactive seminars that address topics in geriatric medicine using a case-based, evidence-based approach. Faculty scholars will be asked to review the web-based modules provided in support of the postgraduate residency program in ACOVE quality indicators and associated geriatric syndrome. Each scholar will receive a, Geriatrics at Your Fingertips, and Geriatric Review Syllabus : A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine  for their reference during the module, as well as a personal and teaching resource.

Topics will include geriatric assessment and evaluation, falls, cross-cultural issues, geriatric syndromes, dementia, urinary incontinence, medication use, depression in late life, late-life psychosis, gynecology, cancer, and osteoporosis.

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