Mendoza De La Garza Maria, Tieu Christina, Schroeder Darrell, Lowe Kathleen, Tung Ericka
a Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine , Mayo Clinic College of Medicine- Rochester , MN , USA.
b Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine , Geriatrics and Palliative Care, University of Virginia-Charlottesville , VA , USA.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2018 Jul-Sep;39(3):316-325. doi: 10.1080/02701960.2018.1484736. Epub 2018 Jun 18.
Medical schools throughout the country struggle with how best to train students to provide quality, patient-centered care to the burgeoning population of older adults. The Senior Sages Program (SSP) is a longitudinal Senior Mentor Program (SMP) that offers students the opportunity to learn about the aging process and core geriatric medicine concepts through the eyes of an aging expert: their Senior Sage. The SSP marries a robust electronic curriculum with an SMP and online discussion board. The aim of this program evaluation was to measure the impact on students' geriatric knowledge and attitudes toward older adults. This asynchronously facilitated course improved students' geriatric knowledge and facilitated stability of positive attitudes toward older adults. The majority of students felt that their SSP interactions were meaningful and valuable to their clinical development. The combination of SMP and electronic curricula offer a feasible, practical way to bridge the geriatric training chasm.
全国各地的医学院都在努力解决如何以最佳方式培养学生，以便为日益增长的老年人群提供高质量的、以患者为中心的护理。“资深智者计划”（SSP）是一个纵向的高级导师计划（SMP），它为学生提供了一个机会，通过一位老年专家——他们的资深智者的视角，来了解衰老过程和老年医学的核心概念。SSP将丰富的电子课程与高级导师计划及在线讨论板相结合。本项目评估的目的是衡量该计划对学生老年医学知识以及对老年人态度的影响。这一以异步方式推进的课程提高了学生的老年医学知识，并促进了对老年人积极态度的稳定性。大多数学生认为他们在SSP中的互动对其临床发展具有意义和价值。高级导师计划和电子课程的结合提供了一种可行、实用的方式来弥合老年医学培训的差距。
