September 2009

  Announcements

  Product Spotlight

  Featured Geriatric Site

  Collaborations

  New Products

  Annual Meetings

Announcements:

** Call for learner assessment materials (Testing your students) **

Most POGOe products contain materials that can be used for teaching or for self-directed learning. But, did you know that POGOe also offers a selection of restricted-access assessment materials? When submitting a product to POGOe, you can choose to provide it for “Open access” or for “Confirmed faculty access only”. If you choose the latter option, the documents associated with the product will be housed offline in POGOe’s local library. Users who request access must verify their faculty status before we release the materials. Requests are screened by the POGOe editors similar to the process used by MedEdPORTAL. We invite faculty to share their assessment materials with other educators on POGOe and can now assure that they will not be accessible to students.

Would you like to write a product review for publication in JAGS? 

JAGS (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society) is publishing reviews of POGOe products in their Educational Resources Review section. We are looking for faculty to write and submit these reviews. The articles are evaluated following the JAGS format, and will count as a peer-reviewed publication. Several product reviews have already been accepted for publication in future issues of JAGS.  For more information, send an email to Editor@POGOe.org.

Share your wisdom!                           

Comment on products you view and use! Use the POGOe evaluation system (stars and comments) to help others identify the strengths and weaknesses of POGOe products. All comments are anonymous and reviewed posting.

Some examples: "I've found the quizzes extremely helpful -- I've incorporated some of them into my resident teaching -- excellent." (Geriatric Emergency Medicine Modules #20457) ; and "It is definitely interesting the first time you play but then after there is probably only one more play left before it becomes boring. However, it certainly teaches what it is designed to teach, but in a much more engaging format." (House Calls Video Game: Riskdom-Geriatrics #20297).

Product Spotlight:

Fast Forward Rounds:

An Innovative and Effective Transitional Care Curriculum

By Drs. Karin Ouchida and Veronica LoFaso, and Carol Capello, PhD

Almost one in five geriatric patients suffers an adverse event during the transition from hospital to home. Almost 1/3 of those are preventable! The Fast Forward Rounds (FFR) aims to improve these numbers by providing a curriculum that emphasizes for medical students the importance of transition of care.

Introduced in July 2006 to teach key aspects of the discharge planning process for older adults with chronic illness, the program has been presented successfully for several years at the Weill Cornell Medical Center. The main objective of FFR is to encourage students to involve patients in the development of a comprehensive care plan, and to communicate that plan to the professionals who will provide post-hospital care. Geared for medical students in their clinical years, the course emphasizes the importance of transitions of care, teaches comprehensive discharge planning, provides an overview of services available, promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, and encourages students to develop comprehensive care plans. As the name of the course implies, learners are asked to fast forward to events that may affect their patients as they transition through the medical system, as well as to learn to anticipate challenges that may arise and to problem-solve ways to address them.

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

Featured Geriatric Site:

Helping Older Adults Search for Health Information Online:
A Toolkit for Trainers – The National Institute on Aging, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the U. S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has developed a free, easy-to-use training course for educators teaching older adults how to find reliable health information on the internet. The training package includes a lesson plan, teaching tips, several helpful handouts, and more. The course can be customized to fit the students’ familiarity with using the internet so that the information won’t be too difficult to grasp. While the exercises focus on two NIH websites, NIHSeniorHealth.gov and MedlinePlus.gov, the information presented can be applied to any website. For more information or to download the course materials, visit the toolkit website at http://nihseniorhealth.gov/toolkit/toolkit.html.

If you would like to recommend a high-quality web resource that is dedicated to the fields of geriatrics and gerontology for a future issue of the POGOe newsletter, please let us know by contacting us at Editor@POGOe.org.

Collaborations:

D.W. Reynolds FD~AGE Physician Mini-Fellowships in Geriatrics:
The Mini-Fellowships are 3 - 4 day intensive courses for non-geriatricians seeking training in geriatrics education and curriculum development. They target clinician-educators in internal medicine, family medicine, hospital medicine and other subspecialties. The course is free of charge to participants who are not from Reynolds-sponsored schools. CME credit is awarded.

 UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine: October 14-16, 2009 and February 10-12, 2010
Visit www.geronet.ucla.edu or contact Anne Hu at: AnneHu@mednet.ucla.edu or (310) 312-0531 for more information

 Duke University School of Medicine: September 21-25 (GME) & October 11-15, 2009 (Medical Student Education in Geriatrics)
Visit careinaging.duke.edu or contact Emily Herbert at: emily.herbert@duke.edu or (919) 660-7577 for more information

 Mount Sinai School of Medicine: February 28^th - March 2^nd, 2010
Contact GeriEd.Programs@mssm.edu or contact Faye Francisco at (212) 241-3624

Physician Continuing Medical Education (CME) Courses in Geriatrics:

The growing list of available CME courses is now kept directly on POGOe.  To view the list, click here.

(New CME courses were recently added.)

A Sample of the New Products
on POGOe:

Home Visit Assessments- Multimedia Web Site #18619 by Edward Ratner

Physician's Curriculum in Clinical Nutrition: Primary Care #20533 by Kathryn Kolasa

Self -Management Strategies for Vulnerable Populations (Web-based video) #20397 by Linda Watson, Arthur Elster and Margaret Gadon

Annual Meetings of Geriatric Associations & Societies:

  6th Annual pre-ASA Meeting (OAPRS & SAGA): October 16, 2009; New Orleans, Louisiana

  Annual SAGA meeting at the ASA:   October 18, 2009, 5-8PM; New Orleans, Louisiana

  GSA’s 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting: November 18-22, 2009; Atlanta, Georgia

For any questions or more information, please contact us at Editor@POGOe.org.

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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