With the help of generous grants from the James N. Jarvie Commonweal Service, Weill Cornell Medical College’s Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology is working towards strengthening psychosocial curricula in geriatric fellowship programs. In 2006, a survey of the NYC metropolitan area geriatric fellowship program directors and found that:
- a need exists to develop core psychosocial content areas and competencies; and
- fellowship program directors are receptive to collaboration and to ideas for psychosocial educational programming.
In 2007, these survey findings were addressed and consortium development began. This Web site offers a unique opportunity for consortium members to:
- share educational curricula on psychosocial topics; and
- access psychosocial information and resources proven helpful to other geriatric fellowship programs.
We hope you find this information useful in your efforts to improve psychosocial education for geriatric fellows.
