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Contact: Jennifer Bush, 202-828-0041, jbush@aamc.org
AAMC Awards Hartford Grants to U.S. Medical Schools to Enhance Geriatric Programs
Washington, D.C., May 31, 2000--The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in collaboration with the John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City, has awarded 20 grants to U.S. medical schools to enhance the gerontology and geriatric curricula at each institution starting this fall. Last December, the Foundation awarded the AAMC $2.6 million over four years to support the new grants program.
Each institution will receive $50,000 a year, totaling $100,000 over the course of the two-year grant.
Each school is expected to offer a fully integrated curriculum spanning the four years of undergraduate medical school training. The institutions will provide medical students with the necessary skills to deliver high quality, compassionate care to the nation's burgeoning elderly population, and to effectively handle the complex issues associated with end-of-life care.
One example of a program is at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). They have a well-developed geriatrics curriculum that is concentrated in the post graduate years. Their intention is to address training in geriatrics and geriatric medicine in the undergraduate years using core competencies developed by the American Geriatric Society (AGS). UCLA will do this using problem-based learning modules and community experiences, among other things.
Other examples of medical school programs can be found at Southern Illinois University and the University of Miami. They are using the opportunity of overall curriculum reform to recognize and respond to demographic projections of their elderly population, and proactively prepare their graduates to serve the needs of aging patients. Miami has identified a unifying theme for each of the four years: developing a biopsychosocial perspective of aging; understanding the basis for age-related diseases; applying concepts and principles in the medical care of the elderly; and developing a deeper understanding of health-care delivery for specific geriatric populations.
The AAMC received 62 proposals from interested institutions. An expert in the field of geriatrics, as well as a medical educator reviewed each proposal. In addition, a member of the advisory group, consisting of experts in geriatric medicine and medical education, reviewed each proposal.
Materials produced by the grantees will be disseminated to all U.S. and Canadian medical schools during the AAMC's Annual Meeting and through academic publications, workshops, poster sessions, and other professional meetings. The final year of the grant will feature a conference, sponsored by the AAMC and Hartford, about geriatrics and gerontology in medical education.
The next call for proposals will be issued in December 2000. Ten schools will be awarded.
For more information, contact the AAMC project director, M. Brownell Anderson, associate vice president in the AAMC's Division of Medical Education, at mbanderson@aamc.org.
AAMC 2000 Hartford Grant Award Recipients
1 University of Arizona College of Medicine
2 University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Medicine
3 University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
4 University of Connecticut School of Medicine
5 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
6 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
7 University of Kansas School of Medicine
8 University of Miami School of Medicine
9 University of Minnesota Medical School
10 University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
11 Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
12 University of Nebraska College of Medicine
13 University of North Carolina School of Medicine
14 Ohio State University College of Medicine
15 University of South Carolina School of Medicine
16 East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine
17 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
18 University of Texas Medical Branch
19 Medical College of Wisconsin
20 University of Wisconsin Medical School###
The Association of American Medical Colleges represents the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; some 400 major teaching hospitals, including 74 Veterans Administration medical centers; 91 academic and professional societies representing nearly 88,000 faculty members; and the nation's 67,000 medical students and 102,000 residents. Additional information about the AAMC and U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals available at www.aamc.org/newsroom.
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