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Utilizing Geriatrics-Focused Web-Based Continuing Education to Reach Practitioners in Rural Practice
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Direct linkFord, Channing R.; Sawyer, Patricia; Brown, Cynthia J. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
Continuing education (CE) provides community healthcare practitioners an opportunity to develop and maintain competence after their initial training is complete. With increasing clinical demands and limited resources for practicing community providers, the need for easily accessible, high-quality continuing education is in growing demand. Also,…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Geriatrics, Web Based Instruction, Rural Areas
The Brave New World of GEC Evaluation: The Experience of the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center
Filinson, Rachel; Clark, Phillip G.; Evans, Joann; Padula, Cynthia; Willey, Cynthia – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2012
In 2007, the Health Resources Services Administration introduced new mandates that raised the standards on program evaluation for Geriatric Education Centers. Described in this article are the primary and secondary evaluation efforts undertaken for one program within the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center (RIGEC), the findings from these…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Continuing Education, Geriatrics, Accountability
Tumosa, Nina; Horvath, Kathy J.; Huh, Terri; Livote, Elayne E.; Howe, Judith L.; Jones, Lauren Ila; Kramer, B. Josea – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2012
The Geriatric Scholar Program (GSP) is a Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) workforce development program to infuse geriatrics competencies in primary care. This multimodal educational program is targeted to primary care providers and ancillary staff who work in VA's rural clinics. GSP consists of didactic education and training in geriatrics…
Descriptors: Expertise, Gerontology, Geriatrics, Rural Areas
Ntiri, Daphne W.; Stewart, Merry – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2009
This study evaluated the effect of a transformative learning (TL) intervention on functional health literacy and diabetes knowledge in older African Americans. Twenty participants from senior community centers completed a six-session intervention. The short-form Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (s-TOFHLA), Literacy Assessment for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Diabetes, Transformative Learning, Community Centers
