Howe Judith L, Penrod Joan D, Gottesman Eve, Bean Andrew, Kramer B Josea
a Associate Director for Education and Evaluation, James J. Peters, VA Medical Center, Bronx , NY, USA; Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York , NY , USA.
b Health Services Researcher, James J. Peters, VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA; Associate Professor , Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York , NY , USA.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2019 Jan-Mar;40(1):3-15. doi: 10.1080/02701960.2018.1454917. Epub 2018 Mar 27.
The Rural Interdisciplinary Team Training Program (RITT) is a team-based educational component of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Office of Rural Health Geriatric Scholars Program. It is a workforce development program to enhance the geriatrics knowledge and skills of VA primary care clinicians and staff caring for older veterans in rural communities. The RITT workshop, accredited for 6.5 hours, is interactive and multi-modal with didactic mini-lectures, interactive case discussions and role play demonstrations of assessments. Clinic teams also develop and implement a small quality improvement project based on common challenges faced by older persons. This report is an evaluation of the effect of the RITT Program on geriatrics knowledge and team development as well as success in developing and implementing the quality improvement projects in 80 VHA rural outpatient clinics in 38 states.
农村跨学科团队培训项目（RITT）是退伍军人健康管理局（VHA）农村卫生老年学者项目办公室基于团队的教育组成部分。它是一项劳动力发展项目，旨在提高退伍军人事务部基层医疗临床医生和照顾农村社区老年退伍军人的工作人员的老年医学知识和技能。RITT研讨会时长6.5小时，获得认证，具有互动性和多模式性，包括小型讲授式讲座、互动式病例讨论以及评估的角色扮演演示。诊所团队还会根据老年人面临的常见挑战制定并实施一个小型质量改进项目。本报告评估了RITT项目对老年医学知识、团队发展的影响，以及在38个州的80个退伍军人事务部农村门诊诊所制定和实施质量改进项目的成效。
