CHAMP (Care of the Hospitalized Aging Medical Patient) is a phenomenal set of educational products from the Section of Geriatrics of The University of Chicago. Collectively designed primarily for clinical educators, the material is easily adaptable for practicing physicians, housestaff, advanced practice nurses and others who care for hospitalized older adults.

The 15 topics in the care of hospitalized older adult patients in CHAMP are organized around four themes: frailty, hazards of hospitalization, transitions of care, palliative care and end of life issues. Central to this curriculum is the training of educators who would teach these topics. This faculty development program merges the educational needs of faculty teachers, residents, and medical students around the goal of improving the care of hospitalized older adults.

Access to the curriculum is through a user friendly web interface and navigation is convenient through quick links in the site. The busy educator will find it convenient that each topic is set up as a module complete with a slide presentation, bedside teaching trigger, pocket teaching card, updated references; weblinks as well as a session evaluation form. These modular components are all modifiable to support the educational goals of the user. Embedded in the CHAMP Faculty Development Program is Teaching on Today's Wards, a 5-session mini-course aimed to strengthen inpatient teaching skills for clinicians as well as an Observed Structured Teaching Exercise (OSTE), a performance-based teaching assessment using standardized learners.