September 13-16, 2009
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation will provide tuition for a limited number of teaching faculty to participate in this program. The goal of the Mini-fellowship is to provide faculty development to increase geriatrics teaching within surgical and medical disciplines. The structure of the mini-fellowship involves a 3-day, on-site intensive course (described below) and a one-year period of on-going mentorship to facilitate development and implementation of geriatrics curriculum in the faculty participant’s home institution.
The Mini-Fellowship curriculum covers a core of generally applicable geriatrics principles that applies to all medical and surgical specialists, and a teaching skills component to facilitate its translation to trainees. A preliminary outline of the program is attached and consists of a 3-day workshop in which guest faculty receive didactic and experiential instruction in teaching techniques and instruction in critical geriatrics content areas, end-of-life care, quick functional assessment and effective transition of care for elderly patients. We hope that you will find this curriculum exciting and useful, and a quick way for you to develop skills in teaching geriatric care within your discipline. In addition to the didactic and experiential components, participants with receive a syllabus with papers felt to be useful in teaching geriatric principles to students and residents, as well as copies of all of the slide presentations on CD ROM for participants to freely use for teaching purposes. The course is taught by local and national leaders in geriatrics and education.
We invite you to share this brochure with other teaching faculty and current or upcoming chief residents who may be interested in this program. Please respond to Laura Gibson at 410-550-3268 or lcgibson@jhmi.edu by August 15, 2009 to register for this exciting program. An application should be completed and sent with a CV to 410-550-2116 or mailed to the address on the form.
Course Directors
Colleen Christmas, MD, Assistant Professor
EunMi Park, EdD, Assistant Professor
Samuel Durso, MD, MBA, AGSF, Associate Professor
