The Aging Imperative: Teaching Future Family

Physicians Skills in Geriatrics

This project intends to address this need for family medicine residents to receive strengthened
geriatric education by developing and implementing a geriatric home care curriculum,
establishing a successful model of a geriatric clinic in a residency program, and institutionalizing
a system to use video Object Structured Clinical Exams (OSVE) to assess resident competency
in clinical geriatrics

Partners:

• Center for Healthy Communities, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Columbia St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency Program
• Racine Family Medicine Residency Program
• St. Joseph’s Family Medicine Residency Program
• Waukesha Family Medicine Residency Program

Goals of the Program:

• Develop a geriatric home care curriculum consistent with the six ACGME core competencies.
• Implement the geriatric home care curriculum within the context of each residency program.
• Establish a successful model of a geriatric clinic in a family medicine residency program.
• Develop a system to use video OSCEs (OSVE) to assess resident competency in clinical geriatrics.

Project period:

• July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2009

Funding Source:

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA