November 2009

  Announcements

  Product Spotlight

  Featured Geriatric Site

  Collaborations

  New Products

  Annual Meetings

Announcements:

** Virtual Goody Bag and Teaching Tips **

View the best of the best instructional and assessment geriatrics-related materials from 40 teaching institutions funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to develop or expand geriatrics teaching to medical students, residents in primary care and non-primary care disciplines, fellows, and community-based practitioners.  POGOe has hosted a Virtual Goody Bag  with links to all of the products that were showcased during this year's Reynolds Grantee Annual Meeting, held October 21-23 in Las Vegas, NV.  Also available is a compilation of Teaching Tips created by the Reynolds grantees. These tips were put together by the grantees themselves based on what they successfully implemented at their institution and that could be replicated at other medical schools. For more information, please visit POGOe today!

** Upgrades to POGOe website **

Recently we have completed work on several changes to the site.  We appreciate all the support and input we’ve received! Here are some of the most interesting changes that have been made:

Video/Audio streaming. You can now view the documents provided with each product directly from the product page instead of navigating to a new page. This way you can easily scroll down to see the product description without using the back button on your browser. This means that movies and podcasts are now playable directly from POGOe. When you click on the Document Title, a viewing window will open within the product page and your movie or podcast will play. This feature will only apply to a few types of audio and video files at this time, but the system will be expanded to include all applicable file types. Stay tuned!

Submission Form upgrades. The product submission form has been improved to add more flexibility. The lengthy Product Information tab has been split in two allowing a faster scroll to make a specific edit. The Authors tab now allows you to choose a name from a preexisting list eliminating the need to type in the information of a repeat submitter. Furthermore, we have updated the Documents tab allowing you to change the name of each document after an upload.  

Usage Reports. Authors can now view usage reports on their POGOe products by going to a tab located next to the product title called “Statistics”. This tab will provide information such as number of views, number of downloads (if a product includes documents), and more! For more information on how to make your product easier for users to find and increase your product rank, contact the editors at Editor@POGOe.org.

Product Spotlight:

WINNER: Product of the Year at the 2009 Reynolds Grantees Meeting in Las Vegas, NV

SmartPrescribe Lesson 5: Principles of Rational Prescribing

By Drs. Kaycee M. Sink and Hal H. Atkinson

Among the domains in the AAMC Geriatric Competencies for Medical Students, Medication Management is challenging to teach given the expansive nature of the topic as well as the danger of subjecting learners to endless rote memorization of drugs, their side effect profiles as well as their use or avoidance in the care of the older adult patient. Fortunately, the recipients of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation’s grant to Strengthen Physicians’ Training in Geriatrics have developed educational products addressing this issue to make learning medication management interactive, fun and engaging.

One of these high-quality educational products is Principles of Rational Prescribing from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, which was the Winner of the 2009 Product of the Year at the recent Annual Reynolds Grantees Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. Developed by Kaycee M. Sink, MD, MAS and Hal H. Atkinson, MD, it is one of five lessons in the SmartPrescribe curriculum developed to teach learners about the need for evidence-based prescribing and the influence that drug company marketing has on medical practice. Intended users of the product include  medical students during their clinical years, housestaff as well as practicing health care providers.

Click here for full Editors' Choice product review, to view the product, and to comment and rate this product on POGOe. 

Featured Geriatric Site:

If you would like to recommend a high-quality web resource that is dedicated to the fields of geriatrics and gerontology for a future issue of the POGOe newsletter, please let us know by contacting us at Editor@POGOe.org.

Collaborations:

D.W. Reynolds FD~AGE Physician Mini-Fellowships in Geriatrics:
The Mini-Fellowships are 3 - 4 day intensive courses for non-geriatricians seeking training in geriatrics education and curriculum development. They target clinician-educators in internal medicine, family medicine, hospital medicine and other subspecialties. The course is free of charge to participants who are not from Reynolds-sponsored schools. CME credit is awarded.

  UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine: February 10-12, 2010
Visit www.geronet.ucla.edu or contact Anne Hu at: AnneHu@mednet.ucla.edu or (310) 312-0531 for more information

  Duke University School of Medicine: February 22-26, 2010, March 22-26, 2010 & May 24-28, 2010
Visit careinaging.duke.edu or contact Emily Herbert at: herbe008@mc.duke.edu or (919) 660-7577 for more information

  Mount Sinai School of Medicine:  February 28^th - March 2^nd, 2010
Contact GeriEd.Programs@mssm.edu or contact Faye Francisco at (212) 241-3624

  Johns Hopkins University: For information about future mini-fellowships, contact Laura Gibson at 410-550-3268 or lcgibson@jhmi.edu

Physician Continuing Medical Education (CME) Courses in Geriatrics:

The list of available CME courses is kept directly on POGOe.  To view the list, click here.

A Sample of the New Products
on POGOe:

MMSE CEX #20544 by Dr. C. Bree Johnston

Healthy Aging Rounds #20605 by   Dr. Mindy Fain, Dr. M. Jane Mohler and Dr. Lynne Tomasa

Teaching Tip: Health Literacy: An Exercise in Communication #20606 by   Dr. Mindy Fain and Dr. Barry Weiss

Annual Meetings of Geriatric Associations & Societies and Other Opportunities:

  GSA’s 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting: November 18-22, 2009; Atlanta, Georgia

  Attention all HRSA Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA) Recipients: Call for Abstracts for a GACA Poster Session at the 2010 AGS Annual Scientific Meeting (Deadline: December 1, 2009) The AGS invites you to submit an abstract for presentation at a special poster session for HRSA Geriatric Academic Career Awardees. This affords GACA awardees the opportunity of a peer reviewed submission process as well as national presentation and dissemination of their scholarly work. Interested presenters should submit their abstracts for poster presentation and then check the box indicating that they are a GACA Awardee and would like to be considered for presentation as part of the GACA Poster Session at the AGS 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago.  The abstract submission site will remain open through December 1.

For any questions or more information, please contact us at Editor@POGOe.org.

POGOe, the Portal of Geriatrics Online Education, is a major initiative of the ADGAP/Reynolds Geriatrics Education Coordinating Center and is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

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