TY - JOUR
T1 - Outcomes from an interprofessional, dementia-focused, telementoring program
T2 - A brief report
AU - Fernandez, Julianna
AU - Agarwal, Kathryn S.
AU - Amspoker, Amber B.
AU - Godwin, Kyler M.
AU - Green, Erial
AU - Pickens, Sabrina
AU - Lindo, Jasmin
AU - Asghar-Ali, Ali Abbas
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PY - 2023/8/30
Y1 - 2023/8/30
N2 - Despite a burgeoning older-adult population, the number of health-care professionals with geriatric expertise continues to lag behind. In 2014, the American Geriatrics Society’s position statement encouraged interprofessional training for health-care professionals. Telementoring remotely connects clinicians with specialists for education and group mentoring. This dementia-focused, 11-month, 1-hour each, telementoring program was modeled on the Alzheimer’s Association ECHO. Our interprofessional expert panel consisted of a geriatrician, a geriatric psychiatrist, an adult nurse practitioner (with geriatric expertise), two geriatric pharmacists, a licensed social worker (coordinating a dementia day program), and a project coordinator. Learners were residents in family medicine and general psychiatry, physician assistant residents in mental health and geriatric psychiatry fellows (total = 31). There was a significant improvement in learner intentions to change medication prescribing by midpoint assessment (p = 0.04). Learners reported few barriers to incorporating skills they learned. An interprofessional telementoring program can help nongeriatric practitioners improve skills in caring for older adults.
AB - Despite a burgeoning older-adult population, the number of health-care professionals with geriatric expertise continues to lag behind. In 2014, the American Geriatrics Society’s position statement encouraged interprofessional training for health-care professionals. Telementoring remotely connects clinicians with specialists for education and group mentoring. This dementia-focused, 11-month, 1-hour each, telementoring program was modeled on the Alzheimer’s Association ECHO. Our interprofessional expert panel consisted of a geriatrician, a geriatric psychiatrist, an adult nurse practitioner (with geriatric expertise), two geriatric pharmacists, a licensed social worker (coordinating a dementia day program), and a project coordinator. Learners were residents in family medicine and general psychiatry, physician assistant residents in mental health and geriatric psychiatry fellows (total = 31). There was a significant improvement in learner intentions to change medication prescribing by midpoint assessment (p = 0.04). Learners reported few barriers to incorporating skills they learned. An interprofessional telementoring program can help nongeriatric practitioners improve skills in caring for older adults.
KW - Dementia
KW - education
KW - pharmacists
KW - residents
KW - telementoring
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U2 - 10.1080/02701960.2023.2253175
DO - 10.1080/02701960.2023.2253175
M3 - Article
C2 - 37647226
AN - SCOPUS:85169570918
SN - 0270-1960
VL - 45
SP - 601
EP - 606
JO - Gerontology and Geriatrics Education
JF - Gerontology and Geriatrics Education
IS - 4
ER -