December 2008

· Announcements

· Site Update: Learner Assessment Materials, New Abilities in Searches

· Product Spotlight

· Collaborations

· Events to Watch for

Announcements:

Congratulations to the 10 schools chosen as the 4^th Cohort by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation: Medical University of South Carolina, University of Alabama, University of California Irvine, University of Massachusetts, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, University of North Texas Health Science Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas - Houston, University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center, Wake Forest University. For a full press release go POGOe and click on the Resources for Reynolds Grantees icon.

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:

Call for Learner Assessment Materials (Tests)

In last month’s “POSTED”, we introduced our policy on releasing assessment materials to verified medical school faculty members only. We invite all to submit assessment materials to POGOe for dissemination.

New Search Functions

The KnowledgeMap, concept-based search engine, will now be supplemented by a basic word search. This new search technique will search the text of the Product Description Page’s for all products posted on POGOe. One can now search for keywords within Authors, Institutions, Product Descriptions, and Objectives.

Product Spotlight:

UCSF Family and Community Medicine's Incontinence Bingo!

2^nd PLACE WINNER: Product of the Year at the 2008 Reynolds Grantee 7^th Annual Meeting

Rarely does a singular approach to teaching a concept reach every student in the classroom. Therefore, multiple teaching approaches are useful and crucial to ensure comprehension of what is being taught. To attend to the tactile and visual learners out there, Dr. Daniel Pound and colleagues from UCSF have developed Incontinence Bingo a game that brings together the learning of chronic urinary incontinence and the fun interactive game of chance, Bingo!

While Bingo may already have a somewhat stereotypical 'geriatric' connection, the game developed by Dr. Pound puts a new spin on this traditional game. Designed to be utilized as a way to reinforce key principles after a didactic session in urinary incontinence, Incontinence Bingo allows students the opportunity to explain incontinence concepts in their own words. Asking students to recall and restate concepts in their own words is a key effective teaching technique and helps students assess their understanding so they can improve their reasoning skills. The game's bingo matrix cross categorizes bladder and sphincter pathophysiology in chronic/persistent incontinence with their management.

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

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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