Medical Education in Geriatrics - Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults

Medical Education in Geriatrics: Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for teaching geriatrics in medical education. This book is for clinician educators: both for those with geriatrics expertise seeking to increase their knowledge and skill in education, and for those medical educators seeking to expand their knowledge of how to teach geriatric principles to their learners and thereby prepare them to care for older adults. Written by experts and leaders in Geriatric Medical Education from across the US and Canada, Medical Education in Geriatrics highlights approaches for creating effective educational experiences in geriatrics for learners ranging from pre-clinical medical students, through residency, fellowship and continuing medical education, as well as interprofessional education, with an emphasis on evidence-based, engaging and memorable teaching strategies. The book also provides strategies for teaching geriatrics in a variety of settings, including the hospital, outpatient settings, nursing home, home care, and telemedicine. Additional chapters address considerations in teaching geriatrics, including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Providing Feedback, assessment in geriatric medical education, online resources, and other topics that will help educators deliver excellent medical education in geriatrics. 
Medical Education in Geriatrics: Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults provides practical and evidence-based strategies for teaching principles of geriatrics in a variety of settings and will be a valuable and practical resource for geriatricians, palliative medicine specialists and trainees, family medicine and internal medicine clinicians and medical educators, medical educators in pre-clinical and clinical settings, residency and fellowship directors, and medical students and residents interested in geriatrics and the care of older adults. 

List of contents

Introduction: The Importance and Urgency of Geriatrics Education.- The Geriatric 5Ms and Age Friendly Health Systems: A Framework for Teaching Geriatrics.- The Current Landscape of Geriatric Medical Education.- Teaching Pre-clinical medical students: Integrating Aging Physiology.- Teaching Clinical Medical Students: Introducing Complexity.- Teaching Residents: Applying Clinical Frameworks to Older Adults.- Teaching Geriatric Fellows: Learning how to teach.- Teaching Geriatrics in the CME setting: Moving from Geriatric Syndromes to a Geriatric Lens.- Teaching Interprofessional Teams.- Teaching in the classroom: Large Groups.- Teaching in the classroom: Small Groups.- Teaching in Home Visits (Including Hospital at Home and Transitions of Care).- Teaching in the Hospital: Bedside Geriatrics Teaching.- Teaching through Geriatrics Consults.- Teaching in the Nursing Home.- Teaching Geriatrics through Telemedicine Clinical Encounters.- Teaching Geriatrics Online: Strategies for Engaging Learners Virtually.- Teaching in other Geriatric Settings of Care (PACE, Assisted Living and other sites of care).- Diagnosing your learner: The RIME Framework applied to Geriatrics Education.- Providing Effective Feedback to learners in Geriatrics.- Assessing Learners in Geriatrics: Evidence-based strategies.- Addressing diversity, equity and inclusion in Geriatrics education.- Faculty Development for Teaching Geriatrics.- Teaching Patient-Centered Care in Geriatrics.- Teaching Communication and End-of-Life Care in Geriatrics.- Online resources to support teaching Geriatrics.- What's Next: Future Directions for Geriatrics Education.

About the author

Andrea Wershof Schwartz MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
 

Summary

Medical Education in Geriatrics: Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for teaching geriatrics in medical education. This book is for clinician educators: both for those with geriatrics expertise seeking to increase their knowledge and skill in education, and for those medical educators seeking to expand their knowledge of how to teach geriatric principles to their learners and thereby prepare them to care for older adults. Written by experts and leaders in Geriatric Medical Education from across the US and Canada, Medical Education in Geriatrics highlights approaches for creating effective educational experiences in geriatrics for learners ranging from pre-clinical medical students, through residency, fellowship and continuing medical education, as well as interprofessional education, with an emphasis on evidence-based, engaging and memorable teaching strategies. The book also provides strategies for teaching geriatrics in a variety of settings, including the hospital, outpatient settings, nursing home, home care, and telemedicine. Additional chapters address considerations in teaching geriatrics, including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Providing Feedback, assessment in geriatric medical education, online resources, and other topics that will help educators deliver excellent medical education in geriatrics. 
Medical Education in Geriatrics: Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults provides practical and evidence-based strategies for teaching principles of geriatrics in a variety of settings and will be a valuable and practical resource for geriatricians, palliative medicine specialists and trainees, family medicine and internal medicine clinicians and medical educators, medical educators in pre-clinical and clinical settings, residency and fellowship directors, and medical students and residents interested in geriatrics and the care of older adults. 

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrea Wershof Schwartz (Editor), Andrea Wershof Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2024
• EAN: 9783031324987
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3132498-7
• No. of pages: 359
• Illustrations: XX, 359 p. 31 illus., 22 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Training, Medizin, allgemein, Fachspezifischer Unterricht, Geriatrics, Medical education, RIME framework, teaching by setting, teaching principles, Geriatric 5Ms