May 2011

• Announcements
• New Products
• Recent Comments
• New in ReCAP
• Featured Geriatric Site
• Annual Meetings

Announcements:

Web-GEM – a virtual geriatrics curriculum
A new POGOe initiative is underway with Cynthia Brown MD, Christine Ritchie MD, and the University of Alabama's Reynolds team under the leadership of Amit Shah, MD from UT Southwestern. The POGOe Geriatric Education Modules (Web-GEMs) will be a series of online clinical cases, similar to those in CliPP for pediatrics and SIMPLE in internal medicine, designed for teaching MS3/MS4 students basic competencies in geriatrics. Envisioned as a virtual curriculum, these clinical cases are to be based on each of the AAMC Geriatrics Competencies and other important geriatrics syndromes. They will be designed for easy integration into core clinical clerkships with emphasis on "core topics" or could be used as stand-alone in a geriatrics rotation whether in synchronous (i.e. real time) or asynchronous (i.e. self-paced) formats. Several authors have already been chosen to start this project. A conference was held at the 2011 AGS Annual Meeting to acclimate them to the program objectives and provide a framework for their cases. We will keep you updated on their progress.

The Copyright and Conflict of Interest form is now electronic!
Authors submitting materials to POGOe will be happy to hear that the CRCCI form is now electronic. POGOe has always used the Creative Commons License framework, which allows authors to retain their copyright while granting others permission to copy and distribute the work, provided they give credit on the conditions indicated by the license selected by the author(s). All products posted to POGOe are automatically assigned the Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) License. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Products will now display the CC symbol, making this clear to all users. For more information about the Creative Commons License framework, please visit http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses. If you would like to change the Creative Commons License on your existing product, you may edit your product and do so on the Copyright tab of the submission form.

Assessment Materials
POGOe offers a growing selection of assessment materials. Similar to the process used by MedEdPORTAL, some assessments are restricted and are only released after the requester has been confirmed as a faculty member. We invite faculty to share their assessment materials with other educators by submitting them to POGOe.

A Sample of the New Products on POGOe:

• Using a checklist to evaluate hospitalized patients who suffer a fall #20749 by J Rush Pierce Jr, Deirdre Kearney and Ethan Cumbler
• A Multimodal Evaluation for an Internal Medicine Geriatrics Rotation #20688 by Adline Ghazi and Mitchell Heflin
• Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) Mini-Cog #20814 by Amy Ehrlich and Kim Freeman

Recent Comment on POGOe:

"We are thinking of trying this with our M2s Pharm course. We are thinking it will do all the educational objectives just at a more basic level. This would be part of a TBL which would give the students an opportunity to discuss compliance issues. We are wondering about assigning students simulation identities, i.e., 37 year old, woman, triathlete, so that they would have to think about what compliance issues the patient might have. Any ideas on how to make this an effective activity?" (Treatment by Tic Tac #20784)

New in ReCAP (Repository of Electronic Critically Appraised Papers):

• Galantamine does not improve cognitive scores in vascular dementia. by Ramonna Cvelich of Duke University
• In community-dwelling older adults, gait speed is independently associated with survival. by Juliessa Pavon of Duke University
• When compared to NSAIDs, narcotic analgesics are associated with higher risk of adverse outcomes in elderly patients with arthritis. by Loren Martinez of Duke University

Featured Geriatric Site:

CSWE Gero-Ed Center – The Council on Social Work Education Gero-Ed Center (National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education) provides social work faculty, students, and practitioners with a valuable online resource for achieving gerontological competence. Funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, the goal of this program is to promote the use of competency-based education in social work programs nationwide. From 2007-2009, the Gero Innovations Grant was awarded to 14 MSW programs to develop, implement, and evaluate different methods to infuse gerontological competencies into classes and related field opportunities for each of three specialty areas – mental health, substance use and health. The materials created through that grant have been made available on the Center's website. The resources are available in a variety of different formats from Powerpoint presentations and videos to text documents. You can browse the collection by subject area or institution, or you can search for a specific keyword. Try out some of these helpful teaching tools at www.cswe.org/CentersInitiatives/GeroEdCenter/Programs/MAC/GIG.aspx.