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UM Geriatrics Clinical Decision Making Instrument
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Product ID: 20656
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University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan Geriatrics Center, with support from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, developed this 24-item multiple choice instrument for assessing knowledge of clinical geriatrics among health professionals. The instrument emphasizes inpatient care and common geriatric syndromes. It was designed primarily for use among house officers (resident and fellows) in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties, but may also be used among residents in primary care disciplines and medical students. The UM Geriatrics Clinical Decision Making Assessment should prove useful to training programs in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties to gather baseline data, implement curricula, and measure the effects of curricular change on the knowledge of trainees in caring for the complex and interacting needs of older adults. The instrument is also available at http://www.med.umich.edu/geriatrics/educationalprograms/gme.htm.

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  • UM Geriatrics Clinical Decision-Making Assessment
  • Answer Key with Explanations
Educational objectives: 

This instrument was developed to provide program directors a general indicator of geriatrics clinical knowledge among groups of house officers, rather than a comprehensive assessment of individual physicians’ knowledge related to the care of older patients. The instrument was designed to be brief to enhance administration to large groups of house officers with busy schedules.

Specifically, the instrument was designed to include:

  • (a) a focus on clinical management rather than nonclinical issues (e.g., social support, long-term care, health systems organization, and finance; to maintain coherence, relevance, and brevity);
  • (b) a case-based multiple choice format (to enhance clinical relevance and reliability of scoring); and
  • (c) a length of 20 to 25 items (to allow a completion time of 30 minutes or less).
Describe any special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
For reliability and validity information, read the article cited below, “Brief Instrument to Assess Geriatrics Knowledge of Surgical and Medical Subspecialty House Officers” (published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine).
List any publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 

Williams, B. C., & Fitzgerald, J. T. (2006). Brief report: Brief instrument to assess geriatrics knowledge of surgical and medical subspecialty house officers. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21(5), 490-493. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00433.x

Date posted: 
Thu, 04/29/2010
Date last updated: 
Thu, 03/18/2010
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Do you or any of the authors have any significant financial interest or commercial support?: 
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Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
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Contact person/corresponding author: 
Brent Williams ([email protected])
Authors: 
James T. Fitzgerald
Brent Williams
NLM Citation:
Fitzgerald, J and Williams, B. UM Geriatrics Clinical Decision Making Instrument . POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2010. Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20656
APA Citation:
Fitzgerald, J and Williams, B. (2010). UM Geriatrics Clinical Decision Making Instrument . POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved June 03, 2010 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20656
 
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