GERIATRICS WORKFORCE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM EVALUATION HIGHLIGHTS

Rural-urban distribution of the U.S. Geriatrics physician workforce.

OBJECTIVES To determine the distribution of geriatricians across the rural-urban continuum from 2000 to 2008 and to compare with primary care physicians in 2008. DESIGN County-level analysis of physician data from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile for 2000, 2004, and 2008 merged with U.S. Census data on the number of older (≥65) county residents. Descriptive statistics for...

Ecosystem Workforce Program

Problem Over the past decade, several congressional authorities and Forest Service policy directives have encouraged the Forest Service to increase local community benefit from forest management contracting. At the same time, there has been a larger policy debate about the role of immigrants and guest workers in the United States workforce, including in forest management. Although there have be...

Advancing Geriatrics Education Through a Faculty Development Program for Geriatrics-Oriented Clinician Educators.

Geriatrician and nongeriatrician faculty need instruction as teachers to provide quality training for a broader community of physicians who can care for the expanding population of older adults. Educators at Duke University designed a program to equip geriatrician and nongeriatrician faculty to develop quality educational programs and teach medical learners about geriatrics. Eighty-three facult...

Geriatrics / Gériatrie Why Geriatrics ?

Why geriatric medicine ? Many have asked this question... residents considering specialization; specialists reluctant to acknowledge change in their aging patients; and anxious patients narrowly defining geriatric medicine as end-of-life care. All have wondered how caring for older patients differs from that of younger adults. The difference, in fact, is immense. The transition from a disease-f...

tDCS clinical research - highlights: Cognitive Enhancement