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Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Program

Evaluation Results

Terry Fulmer

New York University

Kathryn Hyer

New York University

Ellen Flaherty

New York University

Mathy Mezey

New York University

Nancy Whitelaw

Henry Ford Health System

M. Orry Jacobs

University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, OH, Baylor College of Medicine

Robert Luchi

Huffington Center on Aging

Jennie Chin Hansen

On Lok, Inc.

Denis A. Evans

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center

Christine Cassel

The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Ernestine Kotthoff-Burrell

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Robert Kane

University of Minnesota

Eric Pfeiffer

University of South Florida

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.

Key Words: geriatric health care • health care teams • geriatrics education • interdisciplinary education

Journal of Aging and Health, Vol. 17, No. 4, 443-470 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0898264305277962
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