TY - JOUR
T1 - Geriatric interdisciplinary team training program
T2 - Evaluation results
AU - Fulmer, Terry
AU - Hyer, Kathryn
AU - Flaherty, Ellen
AU - Mezey, Mathy
AU - Whitelaw, Nancy
AU - Orry Jacobs, M.
AU - Luchi, Robert
AU - Hansen, Jennie Chin
AU - Evans, Denis A.
AU - Cassel, Christine
AU - Kotthoff-Burrell, Ernestine
AU - Kane, Robert
AU - Pfeiffer, Eric
PY - 2005/8
Y1 - 2005/8
N2 - Geriatric interdisciplinary team training has long been a goal in health education with little progress. In 1997, the John A. Hartford Foundation funded eight programs nationally to create Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) programs. Faculty trained 1,341 health professions students. The results of the evaluation, including presentation of new measures developed to assess interdisciplinary knowledge, are presented, and the implications of the program as a model of interdisciplinary education are discussed. Evaluation data from 537 student trainees are presented. At posttest, GITT trainees demonstrated improvement on all measures of attitudinal change, no change on the geriatric care planning measure, and a change in some of the questions on the test of team dynamics that varied by discipline. Changes were greatest for all the attitudinal measures with the self-reported Team Skills Scale indicating the most significant change-a change that is significant across medicine, nursing, and social work trainees.
AB - Geriatric interdisciplinary team training has long been a goal in health education with little progress. In 1997, the John A. Hartford Foundation funded eight programs nationally to create Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) programs. Faculty trained 1,341 health professions students. The results of the evaluation, including presentation of new measures developed to assess interdisciplinary knowledge, are presented, and the implications of the program as a model of interdisciplinary education are discussed. Evaluation data from 537 student trainees are presented. At posttest, GITT trainees demonstrated improvement on all measures of attitudinal change, no change on the geriatric care planning measure, and a change in some of the questions on the test of team dynamics that varied by discipline. Changes were greatest for all the attitudinal measures with the self-reported Team Skills Scale indicating the most significant change-a change that is significant across medicine, nursing, and social work trainees.
KW - Geriatric health care
KW - Geriatrics education
KW - Health care teams
KW - Interdisciplinary education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=22244470359&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=22244470359&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0898264305277962
DO - 10.1177/0898264305277962
M3 - Article
C2 - 16020574
AN - SCOPUS:22244470359
SN - 0898-2643
VL - 17
SP - 443
EP - 470
JO - Journal of aging and health
JF - Journal of aging and health
IS - 4
ER -
