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Geriatrics at the Tipping Point

(This document contains power point presentations from the annual meeting.)

AAMC Consensus Conference: Outcomes and Next Steps
Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
At the July conference, 26 competencies in geriatrics were identified for graduating medical students. Dr. Leipzig provided an update on this process and where it is going.

The American Medical Association’s Initiatives in Geriatrics
Margaret Gadon, MD, American Medical Association
Aging was named one of 23 areas that the AMA is targeting over the next few years. Dr. Gadon provided an update on the Impact of Aging and Healthcare initiative which was established to identify, develop, and disseminate best practices in health care for the geriatric population.

Institute of Medicine (IOM): Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans
Marie Bernard,MD, University of Oklahoma
The IOM report is scheduled to be released in March, 2008. Dr. Bernard spoke about the charge to The Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans expert panel and the developments that are shaping the study.

The Care Transitions Program
William Lyons, MD, University of Nebraska
The John A. Hartford Foundation\'s national study on care transitions - The Care Transitions Program, was developed in order to improve the discharge process, with an ultimate goal of improving health outcomes of older adults. Dr. Lyons spoke about the best practices in discharge and the training that is bringing the practices up to a higher standard.

Publishing in JAGS: Submitting to Education Section
Joseph G. Ouslander, MD, Emory University
The Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society discussed the philosophy and tips on how to get your manuscript accepted to the education section of JAGS.

POGOe Redesign
Rosanne Leipzig, MD, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Rainier Soriano, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Josh Denny, MD, Vanderbilt University
Aaron McEntire, MS, Stein Gerontological Institute
POGOe has been redesigned to be more then a repository for posting and retrieving products. It’s becoming a virtual community for geriatric educators. Participants were given an update on product posting, the importance of metadata tagging, the use of the community and other resources, etc.

Bandwidth: The Online Hartford Resource Center
James F. O’Sullivan, MPH, The John A. Hartford Foundation
Participants learned about this online source for communications tools and information designed to enhance, strengthen, and add visual impact to your publications, presentations, and communications about aging and health.

Engagement with the Academic Community
Deborah Simpson, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin
This session was an interactive discussion of the infrastructure changes in grantee institutions to support educational scholarship. Participants discussed developing infrastructure to support clinician-educator academic promotion including clarification of the type of activities that may constitute scholarship, a system for reviewing scholarship; clarification of review criteria, faculty development, reward structures; repositories for shared materials, the use of institution-wide ‘academies’ or forums; mentoring and coaching, etc.

IRB Approval Process for Educational Research
Charlene R. Weir, PhD, University of Utah
Participants discussed quality improvement research as well as what type of educational research requires full review, what research can be expedited or exempted from review, and what research requires an informed consent.

Advocacy
Marie Bernard,MD, University of Oklahoma
The focus of this presentation was on raising awareness and developing partnerships between healthcare, medical and aging groups to propel changes in healthcare for older adults through advocacy and other strategies.

Loan Forgiveness
Paul Eleazer, MD, University of South Carolina
At last year\'s Reynolds meeting, loan forgiveness was ranked very highly as a way to get residents interested in a geriatrics fellowship. This has now been accomplished in South Carolina. Dr. Eleazer presented the innovative new loan repayment program designed to attract more doctors with specialized training in geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry.

Developing a Rational Approach for Prioritizing Care for Patients with Complex Health Status
Chris Durso, MD, MBA, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Durso focused on developing health care guidelines that address the complexity and heterogeneity to guide physicians in the care of older adult patients with complex health status.