AGS Educational Toolkits Available for Residents in the Surgical and Related Specialties
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has made available free toolkits of educational resources for residents in the surgical and related specialties. The toolkits contain curriculum and rotation manuals, learner assessments, slide sets and videos, and other resources to train residents in the care of older adults. Toolkits are available for residents in the specialties of surgery, anesthesiology, gynecology-urology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has made available free toolkits of educational resources for residents in the surgical and related specialties. The toolkits contain curriculum and rotation manuals, learner assessments, slide sets and videos, and other resources to train residents in the care of older adults. Toolkits are available for residents in the specialties of surgery, anesthesiology, gynecology-urology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. The toolkits can be accessed here as well as on the Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe) here.
The toolkits were created under the Hartford-funded Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative (GSI), a multi-specialty effort to improve the quality and safety of care provided to hospitalized older adults through education and research programs and efforts to change educational policies so these address care of the older patient. Since inception, the GSI has worked at the local level to improve residency training through funding of efforts to incorporate geriatrics into residency training. The program has funded more than 90 residency programs in targeted disciplines since AGS embarked on the GSI effort in 1994. The training materials presented in this tool kit are drawn from the work of grantees under the Geriatrics for Specialty Residents grant program.
The Geriatrics for Specialty Residents (GSR) Toolkits are a compendium of geriatrics education tools and resources for specialty residents, assembled from the work of these grantees and other experts in the field. The products located in the toolkit represent the innovative ways the GSR grantees have incorporated geriatrics into their curriculum. These educational tools address unique aspects of older adults in surgical and medical subspecialties and were refined by teams of specialty clinician-educators and their colleagues in geriatrics.
The framework for each specialty tool kit has been created by the specialty/geriatrician teams that have overseen the development of that toolkit in order to be consistent with how other faculty in their discipline might look for materials to use in training.
