Teaching medicine interns minimum geriatrics competencies within a "4 + 2" schedule.

Autor: Chao SH; Department of Medicine-Geriatrics Division, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Kwok JY; Department of Medicine-Geriatrics Division, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Ubani BN; Institute for Community Health, Malden, Massachusetts, USA., Rogers REP; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA., Stark RL; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society [J Am Geriatr Soc] 2022 Jan; Vol. 70 (1), pp. 251-258. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 06.
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.17543
Abstrakt: The increased ambulatory training time in an "X + Y" (inpatient + ambulatory) residency schedule affords more opportunities to teach geriatrics principles of care. We describe our internal medicine (IM) residency program's experience in teaching the IM-family medicine (FM) minimum geriatrics competencies (MGC) during a longitudinal geriatrics rotation embedded within interns' yearlong "4 + 2" schedule. Interns spend 1 day of the ambulatory block in a geriatrics outpatient setting (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, house calls, nursing home), during which geriatrics division faculty members give core didactic seminars. We revamped core seminars to address MGC related to medication management, cognitive health, complex chronic illnesses, end of life care, and ambulatory care. Three consecutive intern cohorts completed anonymous surveys pre- and postrotation, rating their confidence level in MGC addressed by the curriculum on a 5-point Likert scale. On postrotation surveys, they also rated the curriculum's contribution to geriatrics skills enhancement. Interns who completed both surveys (N = 22, 92%) reported statistically significant improved confidence ratings on all items, with the greatest point gains seen in performance of functional assessment (1.56), practice of optimal geriatric pharmacotherapy (1.78), and identification of older patients eligible for skilled (1.71) and unskilled home-based services (1.65). They rated geriatrics curricular components as being more helpful than other rotations and conferences in enhancing their geriatric skills. In conclusion, we developed a longitudinal geriatrics curriculum within the context of our "4 + 2" immersion schedule which other programs can easily adapt. Aligning curricular content with the MGC has resulted in interns' improved confidence in several important geriatrics skills.
(© 2021 The American Geriatrics Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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