American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Subspecialty Curriculum Resources
How to Use These Resources
The impetus for development of this curriculum resource section
grew out of the February 2002 AAGP
Training Directors program in Orlando, Florida entitled "Curriculum
in Geriatric Psychiatry: Who, how and where are we teaching what." There
was clear consensus among the training director participants that
the field needed curriculum
resources that would provide a
synthesis of knowledge resources, teaching methods and contexts
useful to geriatric psychiatry training
directors.
The task force members
who volunteered to work on this
project used a number of sources
including the medical and educational literature,
ACGME and ABPN websites, the AAGP
training directors listserve, and notes
and transcripts from the 2002
training directors meeting. Since
that meeting the ACGME has encoded
core competency requirements for all
specialty training and proposed
geriatric psychiatry core competency
definitions. In order to facilitate
application, the major resources provided here are organized to
be consistent with the core competency
construct.
At each subsequent
training directors meeting, it
became apparent that the resource
guides should be "living" documents,
easily accessible and adaptable
to the needs of training programs
in a changing system of accreditation
and certification. This is the reason for the web-based version
where documents can be downloaded
and adapted for site specific
purposes.
This section is the first
step of a process that will facilitate
dialogue among training directors
and support them in their educational
mission. Your feedback on the
resources is welcome.
Please send your comments to dgreenwood@aagponline.org.
Susan Lieff, MD, MEd, FRCPC
Curriculum Resource Editor in Chief
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