The New Frontier: Increasing Geriatrics Expertise in Surgical and Medical Specialties

The Jahnigen Scholars Program: A Model for Faculty Career Development

“…5 Dr. Jahnigen, a leading geriatrician in the United States, was the driving force behind the GSI. He visualized clearly the pressing need to infuse knowledge of geriatrics across all medical and surgical disciplines to ensure quality care for individual older patients.…”

Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Elderly

“…A portion of the scholarship on which this book is based flows from research done under the auspices of the Geriatrics for Specialists Initiative (GSI) of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), an initiative that reflects and in some ways initiated a national effort to improve the surgical care of seniors [5]. The GSI began in 1994 as a national effort to encourage and help specialty leaders to begin responding to the need for more geriatrics knowledge in their fields.…”

Brief report: Brief instrument to assess geriatrics knowledge of surgical and medical subspecialty house officers

“…1 Correspondingly, older adults account for a growing proportion of patients seen by specialty and subspecialty physicians. 2 Currently, few physicians who care for older adults have formal training in geriatrics. 1 Geriatricians, leading physicians in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties, and several specialty societies have called for increased training in geriatrics among surgical specialists and medical subspecialists.…”

“…1 Geriatricians, leading physicians in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties, and several specialty societies have called for increased training in geriatrics among surgical specialists and medical subspecialists. [2][3][4][5][6] Initiatives by the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, and the American Geriatrics Society are underway to expand geriatrics training among house officers in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties. 2,3,7,8 To assess the effectiveness of geriatrics training initiatives, methods are needed to evaluate trainees' clinical knowledge, skills, and behaviors in the care of older patients.…”

“…[2][3][4][5][6] Initiatives by the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, and the American Geriatrics Society are underway to expand geriatrics training among house officers in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties. 2,3,7,8 To assess the effectiveness of geriatrics training initiatives, methods are needed to evaluate trainees' clinical knowledge, skills, and behaviors in the care of older patients. Although there are reliable and valid instruments to measure geriatrics attitudes among medical students and house officers [9][10][11] and instruments to assess geriatrics knowledge among medical students 12 and primary care house officers, 13 there are no instruments that measure geriatrics knowledge of house officers in surgical specialties and medical subspecialties.…”