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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
Nguyen, Annie L.; Duthie, Elizabeth A.; Denson, Kathryn M.; Franco, Jose; Duthie, Edmund H. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2013
Medical schools must consider innovative ways to ensure that graduates are prepared to care for the aging population. One way is to offer a geriatrics clerkship as an option for the fulfillment of a medical school's internal medicine rotation requirement. The authors' purpose was to evaluate the geriatrics clerkship's impact on internal medicine…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Geriatrics, Medical Education, Teaching Methods
Toner, John A.; Ferguson, K. Della; Sokal, Regina Davis – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2009
There is a widening gap between the health care needs of older persons and the treatment skills of the health care professionals who serve them. This gap is especially severe in rural areas, where there is a shortage of and inadequate collaboration between health care professionals and poor access to services for older persons. There is also a…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Medical Education
Johnson, Helen Arleen – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2004
Distance education technologies may be applied to academic settings, continuing education/continuing medical education settings or in combination to both. This article provides an overview of what we have learned about academic and continuing education/continuing medical education in geriatrics and gerontology. It includes information on the scope…
Descriptors: Marketing, Medical Education, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
Hirth, Victor A.; Hajjar, Ihab – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2004
Despite the growth in the elderly population, physicians with special geriatric training and certification number only 9,000 out of 650,000 doctors in the United States. The flexibility and increasing availability of the Internet makes it an ideal avenue for addressing the educational needs of health care providers to improve the health and care…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Content Analysis, Internet, Professional Continuing Education
Gainor, Sara Jane; Goins, R. Turner; Miller, Lee Ann – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2004
Making geriatric education available to rural faculty/preceptors, students, and practitioners presents many challenges. Often the only options considered for educating those in the health professions about geriatrics are either traditional face-to-face courses or distance education programs. The purpose of this paper was to examine the use of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Distance Education, Learning Modules, Educational Strategies
Powers, James; Pichert, James W.; Habermann, Ralf; Ribble, Rachel – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2004
This pilot study's purpose was to evaluate behavioral changes among medical directors and physicians following CME on risk management in long-term care (LTC) facilities. The setting was a satellite conference at the AGS Meeting Symposium 2000. CME participants included 51 medical directors, attending physicians, and nurses. Evaluations were based…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Physicians, Nurses, Risk Management
