The May issue of Academic Medicine contained a special mini-section of three papers focused on geriatrics education and training. All three highlight interesting programs from foundation partners aimed at improving the preparation of the health care workforce to meet the needs of its principal customers--older adults. Two of the papers…
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“Overcoming unconscious incompetence”--This is how one emergency medicine physician described his efforts to convince colleagues about the need for better education of resident trainees in the care of older adults. Many specialists--ER docs, surgeons, anesthesiologists, gynecologists, urologists, etc.--and those who train them believe they already take excellent care of…
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It isn't every day that the Foundation's concerns are echoed by an impartial and authoritative body like MedPAC, the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee, commissioned by Congress to advise on the Medicare program. Although geriatric care was only a small part of a long chapter on graduate medical education payments in…
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David H. Solomon, MD One of the great pleasures of working at a foundation is to be able to meet and support great leaders who make lives better for others. One such leader in geriatric medicine is David H. Solomon, MD. An illustrious educator and scientist, Dr. Solomon has…
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This Monday the 21st is the shortest day of the year and the beginning of winter. It will be very cold and very dark. On this occasion I want to call attention to something just as cold, dark, and frightening in the December issue of Academic Medicine. It is an…
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