Though much has been done to increase geriatrics training at medical schools, many medical schools still lack the faculty resources to teach all of their students. There is a need for a standardized curriculum that can be easily implemented and that is based in national standards. Students are familiar with using national case-based on-line curricula, such as CLIPP and SIMPLE which are used by the majority of US medical schools. These curricula are designed to emphasize clinical reasoning and core clerkship skills, which our curriculum will also emphasize.

In 2010, a group of clinician-educators from University of Texas Southwestern, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, have gathered with the goal of creating a centralized, standardized, case-based geriatrics curriculum for medical students which will address the AAMC Geriatrics Competencies and spearheaded the initiative to build a National Web-Based Medical Student Geriatrics Curriculum.

Key Features of the Curriculum:

• Based on and mapped to each of AAMC Geriatrics Competencies
• Peer-Reviewed
• Standardized/uniform format and “look and feel” from case to case
• Designed to be easily integrated into core/third year clerkships with emphasis on “core topics” or could be used stand-alone in a geriatrics clerkship
• Emphasize clinical decision-making/reasoning
• Follows the format of other national web-based models that students are familiar with (SIMPLE/CLIPP/fm-CASEs/WISEmd)

Current Cases:

Pain Management in the Older Adult

Case Authors: Kellie Flood, MD; Kendra D. Sheppard, MD, MSPH; Gabe Rios, MLIS
Case Editors: Amos F. Bailey, MD; Mindy Fain, MD; Marisol Lance, DO; Christine S. Ritchie, MD, MSPH
National Editing Team: Cynthia Brown, MD, MSPH; Amit Shah, MD; Carol Howe, MD, MLS; Rosanne Leipzig, MD, PhD

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