February 2009

· Announcements

· Site Update :
Bookmarks Tool and Minimum Geriatric Competencies for Medical Students in the Submission Form

· Product Spotlight

· Featured Geriatric Site

· Collaborations

· New Products

· Events to Watch for

Announcements:

Submit New Products!: Submit your products today, and don’t forget about our secure materials section that is available for all assessment materials. Any materials posted on POGOe can be cited on your CV. For more information, contact Jared Rejeski at editor@pogoe.org.

Comment on products: Be sure to check out and add your own comments to products on POGOe. All comments are anonymous and reviewed before posted.

i.e., For Sensory Problems in the Elderly Product#18986: “Nicely detailed discussion of hearing and vision loss in the elderly. Probably best for highly motivated learners who wish to better understand the subtleties of difference in types of hearing and vision loss at a pathophysiological level.”

Attention all Junior Faculty! Write a review of a POGOe product for submission to the Educational Resources Review section of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). For more information, contact Zhenya Hurd at Zhenya.hurd@mssm.edu.

Site Update:

Bookmark Tool

Available on each product page, this new link allows you to bookmark your favorite products for easy viewing at a later time. The products you select to be bookmarked will show in the “My Bookmarks” link on the left hand side of every POGOe page.

Minimum Geriatric Competencies for Medical Students

Now included on each new product submission form, the Competencies will appear if “Medical Student” is one of your choices for “Intended Learner Audience.” This great new tool will soon help us match every product on POGOe to the competencies, creating an even more powerful database of educational products.

Product Spotlight:

GERIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY

From the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

By Shari M. Ling, MD & Yuri Nakasato, MD

Despite the frequent manifestation of rheumatologic disorders in elderly patients, the diagnosis and especially the management of related symptoms remain problematic due to various complicating factors. The "Geriatric Rheumatology" module from the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, addresses these issues with a comprehensive yet straight forward, web-based tutorial. Created by Dr. Yuri Nakasato and Dr. Shari M. Ling with developmental collaboration from Dr. Thomas A. Teasdale, this educational product educates learners about variant presentations, diagnostic caveats, and management issues associated with such disorders.

The product primarily consists of 3 modules: Overview (including epidemiology), Common Disorders in the Elderly, and Medications. Other modules include an archive of printable documents for patients; a picture index (12 images), cases (3 cases with discussion prompts) and self-assessment multiple-choice questions. The most comprehensive module, Common Disorders in the Elderly, provides lessons on osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, crystal-induced arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, and spinal stenosis. Within each disorder, this module defines and explains vital aspects of each as they specifically relate to older adults…

Click here for full Editors’ Choice product review, to view the product, and to comment and rate this product on POGOe. 

Featured Geriatric Site:

The Geriatric Education Centers (GEC) Clearinghouse is a repository for geriatric educational resources. The purpose of this clearinghouse is to disseminate the educational resources that have been produced by the Geriatric Education Centers located throughout the United States. Additionally, the GEC Clearinghouse provides information on educational resources, encourages collaboration on geriatrics and geriatric education, works to reduce redundancies, and helps facilitate identification of areas for further development in geriatrics. To learn more please visit the site. We encourage you to visit often!

POGOe, the Portal of Geriatrics Online Education, is a major initiative of the ADGAP/Reynolds Geriatrics Education Coordinating Center and is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

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