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Each year, the grantees of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation meet to share the work that they have accomplished. This is a list of the POGOe products showcased at the 2010 Reynolds Meeting (October 24 - 27, 2010). The list is alphabetical and arranged by grant cohort. To view the product on POGOe, click the product name.

 

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Cohort 3
Cohort 2
Cohort 1
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

 

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Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine  

  • Aging Q3 - Knowledge to Performance - by Patty J. Iverson
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Interactive website highlighting the knowledge to performance model of each Aging Q3 ACOVE area including detailing, didactic, tools.

University of Alabama School of Medicine  

  • Web-GEM (Web-based Geriatric Education Modules) - Delirium - by C. Harada
    Expected availability date: TBA
    This is an online educational tool focusing on the issue of Delirium that will be used in the third-year clerkships.

University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine

  • Student Senior Partners Program (SSPP) - by Ann Abrams, Camille Fitzpatrick, Solomon Liao and Ann Musser
    Three SSPP modules, each consisting of a preparatory didactic presentation, the student/senior encounter (at the senior partner's home), and a faculty-facilitated small-group discussion, are scheduled for each of the first three years of undergraduate medical education. Scheduled student/senior interactions have both structured educational objectives and enough flexibility to make use of other learning opportunities as they arise.
  • Geriatric Emergency Medicine Curriculum - by Shahram Lotfipour and Ashkan Akasheh
    This web-based curriculum includes five interactive teaching modules that emphasize clinical case studies and patient examples. It addresses the geriatric competencies and focuses on the skills and attitudes required for successful incorporation of geriatric patient care into emergency medicine.

University of Massachusetts Medical School

  • Elder Patient Navigator Program - by Gary Blanchard, et al.
    The Navigator Program is a geriatric education curriculum for medical students based on a service program for older patients. Students are paired with older patients, whom they “navigate” through their medical encounters to help them more fully understand their health problems and treatment.
  • Integrated Case Exercises (ICE) - by Sarah McGee
    Expected availability date: TBA
    As part of an integration-based curriculum re-design at UMMS, foundational science courses incorporate "ICE" cases within yr 1 courses. Several cases developed by geriatrics faculty will include elements related to aging.

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

University of North Texas Health Science Center

  • (KBIT) Knowledge Based Inference Tool Delirium Module - by Frank Papa, Jennifer Heffernan and Michael Oglesby
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Web-Based Differential Diagnosis Training Program

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

  • Involving Physicians-in-training in Community Health Education of Seniors - by Rachel K. Miller, MD
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Interactive community site visit
  • Advance Care Planning with Surrogate of Older Adult with Dementia - by Amy Corcoran and Lisa Vagnoni
    Medical students are given the opportunity in small groups to practice communication skills with a standardized patient. Students assume the role of attending physician, who is in charge of this patient’s care while attending on the Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit, and speak to the patient’s adult child. The objective is to have the student discuss the patient’s clinical condition and what the goals of care should be during this hospitalization, i.e., whether the patient should be transferred to the ICU if she worsens and, if so, whether she should be intubated and resuscitated.

University of Texas Medical School at Houston

  • TEXAS Training Excellence in Aging Studies: Geriatric Gems and Palliative Pearls - by Nasiya Ahmed, et al.
    Expected availability date: Coming soon
    "Geriatric Gems and Palliative Pearls" are a series of brief web modules, or "soundbytes", of geriatric medical topics. The "Gems and Pearls" are developed on andragogical principles employing brevity, repetition and an element of entertainment or compelling information to gain the learner's attention. Each soundbyte takes about 3-5 minutes to review and is linked to videos, diagrams, text materials, and additional information on specific topics. Examples include Depression, Dementia, End-of-Life Issues and many others.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

  • Cell Biology eLearning Module: "Aging in all Tissues: Skin" - by Judith Head
    Expected availability date: TBA
    First of a series of interactive modules teaching normal aging changes, focusing on changes in the skin

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

  • SMILE (Senior Mentor Independent Living Education) with Meals-on-Wheels - by Jamehl Demons
    Expected availability date: TBA
    This is a one-morning community experience pairing a medical student with a volunteer driver (age 65+) for the local Meals on Wheels program. The student accompanies the driver on the delivery route and en route conducts a life history of the driver and delivers a prevention message on an aspect of healthy aging. Afterwards, the student writes a reflection paper on the experience with this high-functioning senior. Students evaluate the experience and are evaluated by the driver and a faculty member on professionalism and communications.
  • SmartPrescribe Lesson 5: Principles of Rational Prescribing - by Hal Atkinson and Kaycee Sink
    This is a web-based lesson on the principles of rational prescribing. It includes three cases and addresses polypharmacy, adverse drug events, and off-label prescribing.

 

 

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

  • Geriatric Assessment Workshop - by William B Burton
    These are materials to conduct a half day workshop regarding geriatric assessment. Included is a faculty guide, instructional forms, and assessment forms.
  • Anticoagulation Guidelines - by Laurie Jacobs
    This is a pocket card with guidelines for prescribing and monitoring anticoagulants, which are one of the highest risk medications for the elderly.
  • Use of Sedative-Hypnotics in Older Adults - by Claudene George
    Pocket card regarding the use of sedative-hypnotics in older adults.
  • Geriatric Health Care Systems Test - by Wanda Horn
    This is a multiple choice test used as a pre- and post-geriatrics rotation to assess knowledge and skill in planning health systems use for patient care, such as home care, long term care, hospice, etc.
  • Fast Forward Rounds - An Innovative and Effective Transitional Care Curriculum - by Karin Ouchida, Veronica Lofaso and Carol Capello (co-authored by Weill Cornell Medical College)
    Fast Forward Rounds (FFR) is a 3 hour course created to teach medical students how to safely transition patients between different health care settings. The course combines interdisciplinary lectures, an interactive DVD with a clinical vignette, small-group discussion, and a team-based learning exercise.
  • Geriatrics Medication Management Card - by Claudene George
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Pocket card regarding Medicaiton management in older adults.

Florida State University College of Medicine

  • Anatomy Class Introduction as the First Patient - by Lisa Granville
    This short anatomy class exercise introduces the cadaver as the first patient. The students will assess the cadaver and approach this as an investigation of patient history. The students will be required to present a cadaver report on their observations. The report will focus on the suspected cause of death and the students ideas on anticipated effects of their cadaver's clinical symptoms as they relate to the cadaver's daily life (i.e., ADL's, IADL's, AADL's, and possible means of compensation).

Harvard Medical School

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

University of Arizona College of Medicine

  • Health Literacy and the Older Adult - by Barry Weiss and Michael Griffith
    This is a comprehensive web-based, online interactive module on Health Literacy in the Older Adult. It incorporates multiple modalities including hyperlinked text and resources, videos, mini-quizzes, and examples of health literacy assessment tools--all held together by an engaging speaker and guide through the module.
  • Aging for Specialists Medical Student Conference - by Mindy Fain, Carol Howe and M. Jane Mohler
    The Medical Students’ Aging for Specialists Conference brings together medical students (MS1,2) and faculty leaders (Deans, Dept Heads, Program Directors) in a lunch-time symposium that confirms the importance of aging principles of care no matter what career path students may follow – especially surgical and related medical specialties.
  • Healthy Aging Rounds - by Mindy Fain, M. Jane Mohler and Lynne Tomasa
    "Healthy Aging Rounds" provide third year medical students with an opportunity to engage in a discussion with healthy older adults. Students employ interviewing techniques through “elder chats” in order to gain a broader and evidence based understanding of aging with specific focus on physical activity prescription, and social engagement counseling in trained community dwelling healthy elder mentors.
  • Elder Care: A Resource for Providers
    A continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions.
  • Podcasts on Aging Topics
    Podcasts on various topics in aging.
    Podcasts on Aging Topics: The Timed Get Up and Go Test
    Podcasts on Aging Topics: "For Young Physicians- An Aging Mandate"

University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

  • Geriatric Cross Cover Challenges - by Bree Johnston
    This is a brief (30 minute) interactive power point presentation that is intended to help 4th year students and new interns approach common geriatric challenges on call nights, focusing on foley catheters, delirium, restraints, and falls.
  • Mad as a Hatter - by Daniel Pound
    Mad as a Hatter is an interactive teaching tool that can be used to reinforce why to avoid anticholinergic drugs in elderly patients and how to choose treatments without anticholinergic side effects.

University of Kansas School of Medicine

  • Advance Directives - by Daniel Swagerty and Jerry Menikoff
    Expected availability date: Coming soon
    This module is intended to assist in teaching undergraduate medical students about advance health care planning; including, the various documents available to the provider, the issues of determination of decisional capacity and competency, and communicating with patients, families and surrogate decision makers.
  • Delirium - Web-based Instructional Module - by Sally Rigler
    Web-based instructional module regarding the definition, diagnosis, treatment and sequelae of delirium.
  • Dementia - by Kate Twenter, Lynne Kallenbach, Jessica Kalender-Rich and Daniel Swagerty
    Expected availability date: Coming soon
    Topics include identification and workup of various types of dementia, including Alzheimers, Vascular, Frontotemporal, and Pseudodementia secondary to a variety of underlying conditions. In addition, the module includes information about disease progression and prognosis, and various pharmacologic and environmental treatment options.
  • Depression - by Sally Rigler
    A web module for self-study that investigates the epidemiology of depression in the elderly, its diagnosis, treatment and sequelae.
  • Medical Ethics - by Daniel Swagerty and Sharee Wiggins
    Expected availability date: Coming soon
    This web-based module for third-year medical students reviews primary and ancillary principles of medical ethics and challenges the learner to apply these principles to patient care scenarios. Reading assignments include an ethics article regarding allocation of scarce medical resources.
  • Functional Assessment - by Rosemary Laird and Mary McDonald
    An interactive web module for self study developed for medical students. Introduces a mnemonic system to recall the components of the comprehensive geriatric assessment.
  • Mobility, Gait, Falls - by Daniel Swagerty and Mary McDonald
    Web-based self-study module covering the prevalence and risk factors of falls. Consideration of post-fall assessment and management and mobility assistive devices is also included.
  • Palliative Care - by Daniel Swagerty and Mary McDonald
    Web-based self-directed learning exercise that explores attitudes and barriers to effective palliative care. Effective pain management is explained with recommended regimens.
  • Physical Diagnosis in Older Adults - by Sharee Wiggins and Daniel Swagerty
    Expected availability date: Coming soon
    This independent learning web-based module sets the tone for clinical encounters with older adults, atypical presentation of illness, importance of review of function and medications.
  • Polypharmacy - by Lynne Kallenbach and Daniel Swagerty
    Case based website discussing pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic changes with aging as well as adverse drug reactions and potentially inappropriate medications in older adults.
  • Pressure Ulcers - by Mary McDonald and Daniel Swagerty
    Web-based self study exercise describing risk factors, treatment, staging and prevention of pressures ulcers.
  • Urinary Incontinence - by Sharee Wiggins, Tomas Griebling, Anne Walling and Daniel Swagerty
    Web-based, self-directed learning activity which reviews the different types of urinary incontinence, pathophysiology and treatment options.
  • Geriatric Neurology Web Module for Third-Year Neurology Clerkship - by Mary McDonald and Heather Anderson
    This web-module series was created for third-year medical students on the neurology clerkship to teach them about ten geriatric neurology topics: Parkinson's disease, stroke, dementia, delirium, peripheral neuropathy, neck/back pain, sleep disorders, temporal arteritis, cranial nerve disorders, and localization of a lesion. A case and post-module questions are provided for each topic.
    Project Overview and Poster
    Parkinson's Disease Web Module
    Stroke Web Module
    Delirium Web Module
    Neurology Localization Web Module
    Neck and Back Pain Web Module
    Cranial Nerve Disorders Web Module
    Temporal Arteritis Web Module
    Peripheral Neuropathy Web Module
    Dementia Web Module
    Sleep Disturbances Web Module - Coming soon

University of Utah School of Medicine

  • MS3 Inpatient Pearl Cards and Exam - by Nathan Wanner and Andrew Freeman
    Expected availability date: TBA
    7 laminated pocket cards addressing 7 of the AAMC core competency domains. Also, a 35-question exam assessing the students knowledge of these 7 topics

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 

  • AAMC/Hartford Medical Student Competency-Based KnowledgeMap Concept Searches - by Anderson Spickard and Josh Denny
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Over the past two years the Vanderbilt-Reynolds Geriatrics Education Center and collaborators from other Reynolds Programs have developed AAMC/Hartford Medical Student Competency-Based searches in KnowledgeMap (KM), an educational content repository and concept searching tool. The pre-defined searches may be used to electronically locate competency-related curriculum materials in KM.

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

  • Cadaver Treasure Hunt Faculty Guide - Richard Besdine, Lynn McNicoll and Aman Nanda
    The program consists of 2 components: (1) a lecture at the very beginning of medical school introducing them to geriatrics, using the extreme old age of their cadavers and their death certificate diagnoses as a window to the importance of aging; and (2) a workshop in the anatomy lab in which geriatricians review the gross anatomical findings of the cadavers and provide important clinical perspectives.
  • Educational Resources on Aging
    The Educational Resources on Aging (ERA) is a MyCourses based website developed by the Reynolds project team at Brown University. The site contains all aging-related curriculum products for medical students, residents, and faculty.
  • Schwartz Communication Curriculum - Richard Besdine, Renée Shield and Iris Tong
    This curriculum is designed to teach first and second year medical students to acquire and to improve their skills in effective communication with patients and family members. The developing curriculum consists of several 3-hour sessions in the 2-year Doctoring Course.
  • Curriculum Tracking - Susan Campbell, et al.
    The Curriculum Tracking Form is a preclinical science evaluation tool that is completed by volunteer students (called "trackers") for each lecture, small group session, and lab to record the aging content elements, time spent (in minutes), and evaluation/quality of the content of the presentation (via a numeric 1-5 rating and trackers' comments).
  • Clinical Impact of Physiologic Changes of Aging - Annie Wang and Richard Besdine
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Fold-out pocket card that describes pure aging and clinical manifestations by organ system

 

 

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Boston University School of Medicine

  • Spirituality OSCE - by Matthew Russell
    Standardized Patient case, includes clinical checklist and post-encounter paperwork

Emory University School of Medicine

  • Care Transitions Training - by Manuel Eskildsen
    Experiential and lecture curriculum that begins with intern Orientation but reinforces throughout training.

Indiana University School of Medicine

  • Curriculum for an Integrated Geriatric-Oncology-Hematology Fellowship - by Cathy Schubert and Glenda R. Westmoreland
    This curriculum lists the ABIM requirements for combined fellowship training in Geriatrics and the subspecialities of hematology and/or oncology and includes descriptions of the clinical, educational, and research venues through which the training can be accomplished.
  • Third Year Medical Students on ACE - by Ella Bowman
    Expected availability date: TBA
    A curriculum was written for a 3rd year medical student ACE experience. During their required inpatient month, 3rd year students participate in ACE interdisciplinary team rounds to discuss one of their patients with the ACE Team. After rounds, students complete a tool that evaluates their recognition of the role of interdisciplinary team members in the care of complex older adults who have multiple geriatric syndromes.

SUNY Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

University of Chicago, The Pritzker School of Medicine

  • PATCH (Palliative Access Through Care at Home) Match - by Deon Cox-Hayley, Aliza Baron and Lisa Mailliard
    Expected availability date: Coming soon
    PATCH Match is a competency-based, virtual training experience in geriatric palliative home care, accessible online and suitable for a wide range of health care professionals such as medical and nursing students, residents, fellows, and others. Through simulated home visits, PATCH Match aims to teach learners to recognize that visiting frail older adults in their homes provides a more comprehensive understanding of patients, and that palliative care can be delivered effectively on home visits.

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

  • Tell Me Your Story - interactive student exercise - by Barbara Tobias
    Tell Me Your Story" is an opportunity for new students to explore the concepts of professionalism and the patient's perspective on health care as they try on their new roles as healers. Two students are paired with an older well adult resident of the Maple Knoll Village, a large local retirement community. Students conduct a focused 50 minute interview with the resident.
  • Longitudinal Encounters with Alzheimers Disease Standardized Patients (LEADS) - by Timothy Lewis, E. Gordon Margolin, Irene Moore and Gregg Warshaw
    Through the use of standardized patients (SP), residents meet Tess Clermont, a 78 year old woman with memory problems and her daughter, Linda Stevens. During their first encounter with Mrs. Clermont they review her prior assessments and determine her primary diagnosis, explain the cause of her cognitive and functional impairments and make treatment recommendations. During 2 subsequent encounters they assist Mrs. Clermont and her daughter understand and cope with her progressive illness. Residents' standardized patient stations are videotaped for educational review.

University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

  • Aging Sensitivity Training - by Rose van Zuilen
    Expected availability date: TBA
    During this 2-hour workshop participants identify common misconceptions about older adults and the aging process. They recognize sensory losses associated with aging and their impact on quality of life through simulation activities. As a group, they identify strategies to improve communication with older adults and assist older adults to cope with the changes of later life.

University of Missouri School of Medicine

  • Conversations on Health and Aging - by Steven Zweig
    A video featuring candid discussions with physicians who take care of elders. They talk about the challenges and rewards of working with older patients.

University of New Mexico School of Medicine

  • UNM hospital Post Fall Assessment/Huddle Tool - by John "Rush" Pierce
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Tool for assessment of inpatient falls
  • Health Care Decision Making Webct Module for Medical Students - Christine Hayward and Carla Herman
    The Health Care Decision Making module is designed as a required supplement for 3rd year medical students completing a geriatric medicine ambulatory clerkship.
  • Demographics of Aging Webct Module for Medical Students - Christine Hayward and Carla Herman
    This geriatric module, Demographics of Aging, provides required introductory material for 1st year medical students in their community-based clinical experience (Practical Immersion Experience - PIE).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

  • Carolina Opinions on the Care of Older Adults (COCOA) - by Hollar and Roberts
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Measures beliefs and attitudes regarding caring for older adult patients

 

 

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Medical College of Wisconsin

  • SAFE-T from Babe to Sage: Injury Related Anticipatory Guidance Across the Age Continuum - by Steven Denson, et al.
    Given many common themes in pediatric, adult, and geriatric injury prevention, we designed an anticipatory guidance pocket card with the mnemonic SAFE-T, encompassing topic areas of supervision, abuse, falls, environment, and travel. Each topic area is subdivided into areas of high injury risk, and then preventative guidance is provided.

University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine

  • You're Being Paged! A Nursing Home On-Call Role-Playing Exercise - by Christina Bell and Misty Yee
    This is an orientation for Geriatric Medicine Fellows to taking phone calls from nursing homes as part of a teaching nursing home service of a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program. The session is held early in the first year of a clinical geriatric medicine fellowship during a didactic session.

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

  • Dementia Training to Promote Involvement in Meaningful Activity
    Expected availability date: TBA

University of Michigan Medical School

  • UM Geriatrics Clinical Decision Making Instrument - by James T. Fitzgerald and Brent Williams
    24-item multiple choice instrument for assessing knowledge of clinical geriatrics among health professionals. The instrument emphasizes inpatient care and common geriatric syndromes.

University of Nebraska College of Medicine  

  • Dementia & Behavior in LTC - by Brenda Keller and Thomas Magnuson
    This seminar is designed to provide case based-small group discussion training along with experiential activity in a long-term care facility. It is presented during long term care rotation.

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

  • Hospital to Home - by Robert McCann, Kevin McCormick, Annette Medina-Walpole and Daniel Mendelson
    Hospital to Home is a DVD that creates a shared learning experience for medical residents who discharge frail older persons from hospitals to the home environment. The DVD contains individual clips of patient encounters in the hospital, including functional assessment, interviews and highlights of durable medical equipment needs. Patient videos from the hospital are complemented with clips from their homes, vividly illustrating how older adults function at home compared to the hospital. Clips and teaching points include medication management at home, physical function in the home, and the use of durable medical equipment and adaptive equipment.
  • Geriatric Medicine Multidisciplinary Faculty Development Curriculum - Thomas Caprio, Annette Medina-Walpole and Dallas Nelson
    Expected availability date: Coming soon
    This is an ongoing educational curriculum to train physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide goal based medical decision making in the care of geriatric patients. The curriculum is designed for providers without formal training in geriatric medicine and with limited training in chronic disease management. The curriculum also addresses core teaching topics to improve the providers’ skills in bedside teaching in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

  • Senior Mentor Program - by Paul Eleazer et al.
    Strong planning, as to what modules are realistic to accomplish in light of the program characteristics i.e. 1 year vs. 2, required or elective.
  • Tapestry - by Maureen Dever-Bumba
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Database to track geriatric vertical curriculum. Includse matching to AAMC and AGS competencies.

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

  • Functional and Cognitive Assessment of the Geriatric Patient - by Peter Boling
    This product is a slide show presentation and audio recording of Dr. Boling's lecture. In the presentation, Dr. Boling defines functional and cognitive assessment and explains its importance. He explains how to perform the assessment tests and there are videos for visual demonstration.

Weill Cornell Medical College

  • This Caring Home - by Rosemary Bakker
    An animated web-based educational tool providing tips to enhance home safety for persons with Alzheimer's and other types of demtnia. Highlights include a virtual home, prouduct guidese, and videos and animations.

Yale University School of Medicine

  • Geriatric Assessment for Medical Students - by Margaret Drickamer
    Expected availability date: TBA
    A two-part hands-on workshop for second year medical students. Part one is on cognition and part two on function and the Geriatric Review of Symptoms

 

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University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

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University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

  • Preventive Ethics - by G. Kevin Donovan, Andrea Hyatt and Thomas A. Teasdale
    This is an online, self-directed educational module describing and regarding the use of preventive ethics in medicine.
  • Homeostenosis - by George E. Taffet
    This is an online educational tool for understanding concepts regarding homeostenosis and homeostasis in aging humans.
  • Communication and Dementia - by Thomas A. Teasdale
    Online webinar designed to educate direct care providers about best practices when treating a demented person.
  • Pressure Ulcers Web Module - by Carla Click and Aimee Garcia
    This web-based module provides a comprehensive review of the epidemiology, presentation, risk factors, and management strategies of pressure ulcers in the elderly.
  • Oral Health in the Elderly - by K. Suzie Beavers
    This is an online, self-directed educational module regarding oral health care of older individuals.
  • ASiST (Aging Simulation Sensitivity Training) Kit - by Thomas Teasdale
    Expected availability date: TBA
    Hands-on, experiential, sensitivity-training activity that illustrates the challenges of age-related changes in health status and how they can be accommodated.

 

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