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Time to Assess

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

Assessing Physician Performance
Eric S. Holmboe, MD, American Board of Internal Medicine
Dr. Holmboe is a Senior Vice President for Quality Research and Academic Affairs at the American Board of Internal Medicine and an expert in interventions to improve quality of care and methods to evaluate physician performance.

AAMC Graduation Questionnaire (GQ) Results: Baseline Competency Data
Paul Eleazer, MD, University of South Carolina
Darryl Wieland, PhD, MPH, University of South Carolina
In 2008, the AAMC agreed to a pilot changing the content of the eight 'geriatrics' items to reflect some of the new medical student competencies. Dr. Eleazer reviewed these changes and provided aggregated results for 2007 and 2008, honing in on the baseline data (pre-release of the competencies) and Reynolds v. non-Reynolds SOMs’ results.

Inside POGOe
Josh Denny, MD, Vanderbilt University
Rainier Soriano, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe) has undergone another year of growth and transformation- now with new ways to access information and communicate with other educators in geriatrics and gerontology. During this session, Drs. Denny and Soriano will update the participants about new POGOe initiatives.

Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Programs
Sharon Levine, MD, Boston University
The CRIT program at Boston University was developed as part of their Donald W. Reynolds Foundation grant, and is now being disseminated through a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation. Dr. Levine described how the program provides chief residents and their mentors with training focused on improving understanding of geriatric principles, as well as leadership and teaching skills. Results to date of the dissemination effort were discussed.

Cardiology (ECCOA) “Show & Tell”
Mitch Heflin, MD, MHS, Duke University
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society of Geriatric Cardiology (SGC) are developing the Essentials of Cardiovascular Care in Older Adults (ECCOA), a curriculum that will provide cardiology fellows with the tools they need in caring for older adults with cardiovascular disorders. Dr. Heflin provided an update on this John A. Hartford Foundation and the Association of Specialty Professors funded project.

SGIM Geriatrics Task Force Project
Don Scott, MD, MHS, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Through a grant funded by the John A Hartford Foundation to the Association of Specialty Professors of Medicine, the SGIM geriatrics task force is developing a wiki to create an evidence-based toolbox of assessment methods for the medical student geriatric competencies. This wiki will serve as a platform for a clinician-educator community effort to create an evidence-based set of recommendations for best assessment methods and tools specific to each geriatric competency for medical students. Dr. Scott discussed the concept and progress to date.

Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative (GSI): Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents (GSR)
Jane Potter, MD, University of Nebraska
Funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, the GSR program, part of AGS' GSI, supports collaborations between medical specialty faculty and geriatricians that develop, initiate and evaluate programs integrating geriatrics into surgical and related specialty residency training. Dr. Potter provided an update on the project’s recent accomplishments and current directions.

Teaching Portfolios
Annie Medina-Walpole, MD, University of Rochester
Nathan Flacker, MD, Emory University
This workshop reviewed the development and contents of an academic portfolio and an e-portfolio. An academic portfolio is a concise way of collecting and summarizing your educational activities and accomplishments. It is used as ‘evidence’ for your promotion and acts as your surrogate along with your CV and letters of recommendation. Participants discussed the potential of electronic portfolios as web-based technologies that can facilitate and enhance the portfolio keeping process. Attendees also learned how to categorize their educational accomplishments for promotion and explore an open-source and standard compliant e-Portfolio technology to facilitate the documentation of geriatric educators’ teaching scholarship.

Best Practices for Teaching and Assessing Falls: Show & Tell/ Teacher’s Swap Session
Anthony Caprio, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (ppt)
Manuel Eskildsen, MD, Emory University
Rubina Malik, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center (ppt)
Michael Mintzer, MD, University of Miami (ppt)
Andrew Dentino, MD, Texas Tech University (ppt)
During this show and tell session, attendees were presented with several methods for teaching and evaluating learner’s skills in fall assessment. Methods were compared and contrasted: time needed, learner audience, methods, etc. After the presentations, attendees discussed the tools and which learners and teaching environments would best be served by each.

Integrating Assessment of Geriatric Competencies into Residency Training
Eric Holmboe, MD, American Board of Internal Medicine
During this session, participants discussed the integration of the geriatrics competencies into ongoing evaluation programming as well as new evaluation planning.

Virtual Patients in Geriatric Education
Coco Ruiz, MD, Paul Mulhausen, MD, and Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH
A reprisal and continuation of the successful 2008 AGS workshop. Virtual patients are computer-based programs that simulate real-life clinical scenarios or cases in which the learner acts as a health-care professional obtaining a history and physical exam and making diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. Many Reynolds grantees have developed VPs to enhance teaching and learning activities in geriatrics. At this session, the conveners and participants shared their experiences in this exciting area.