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What is POGOe?

The Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe) is a free public repository of a growing collection of geriatric educational materials in various e-learning formats, including lectures, exercises, virtual patients, case-based discussions, simulations, as well as links to other resources. New products are added every month as seen in this chart.

POGOe's mission is to promote geriatric education through the provision and encouragement of free exchange of teaching and assessment materials that support the fields of geriatrics and gerontology. 

Funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, POGOe is managed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, on behalf of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP).  The site is a partnership between Mount Sinai and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Division of Geriatrics.

We invite you to browse POGOe! Discover and use materials developed by leading educators in the field of geriatric medicine and gerontology.

Interested in submitting your educational materials to POGOe? Please contact the POGOe Managing Editor (editor@pogoe.org).


POGOe History

POGOe was created in 2004 with the original intent to disseminate materials created by recipients of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation grants to enhance training of individuals in geriatrics as well as to encourage collaboration among geriatrics educators.  

Prior versions of POGOe were created with the Stein Gerontological Institute (SGI) and the e-learning group at the University of Miami. In 2008, the site moved to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics to integrate a concept-based search function to enhance POGOe’s capabilities. In 2010, with the Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative, the site began to collect geriatric nursing products.

In 2010, we completed matching POGOe’s collection of educational materials to medical student competencies in geriatrics. To view the results, visit GWiz.

Currently, we are working on building a National Web-Based Medical Student Geriatrics Curriculum. To read more about this project, visit web-GEM.

We appreciate your visit and look forward to your participation in the POGOe online community!

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