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Published on: July 27, 2018
Preliminary report from the Kansas Hartford Geriatrics Project: a model of community university collaboration in
D Swagerty1, A Walling, S Studenski
1Department of Family Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66160, USA.
Objectives:
This paper describes the development, implementation, and participant satisfaction of a faculty development program for community-based clinician educators with competencies in geriatric medicine.
Design:
One group, ongoing trial.
Setting:
University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas.
Participants:
Family physicians and general internists from throughout the state of Kansas (n = 30).
Intervention:
This is an integrated faculty development curriculum of clinical geriatrics and educational process offered in nine sessions over 3 years.
Measurements:
Project retention, session attendance, and participant satisfaction are the measures of program success.
Main Results:
Project retention at 18 months, the midpoint of this project, has been 87%, with 91% of the retained participants attending all of the sessions to date. More than 95% of the participants have rated each of the first five sessions as highly satisfactory or excellent in meeting their needs as a clinician educator. Satisfaction for on-site and interactive televideo participation has been equally high.
Conclusions:
Our preliminary results indicate the Kansas Hartford Geriatrics Project model of community-university collaboration in geriatric faculty development is successful in recruitment and satisfaction of participants. The curriculum is highly attractive and rewarding to faculty. Interactive televideo provides a successful innovation in aging-oriented faculty development.
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