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To evaluate the educational outcomes and team-based competencies developed through the national Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) program across multiple health professions.

July 14, 2005Journal of Aging and Health

Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Program

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To evaluate the educational outcomes and team-based competencies developed through the national Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) program across multiple health professions.
Assessed an interdisciplinary geriatric education initiative implemented across eight national sites funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, which trained 1,341 health professions students.
Analyzed pretest and posttest evaluation data from 537 trainees in medicine, nursing, and social work using instruments measuring attitudes, team dynamics, and geriatric care planning.
Trainees demonstrated significant improvements across all attitudinal change measures at posttest, with the self-reported Team Skills Scale showing the most prominent gains across medicine, nursing, and social work.
Scores on the objective geriatric care planning instrument showed no significant change following the training.
Responses on the team dynamics assessment exhibited variable shifts across the different clinical disciplines.

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Educational evaluation reveals improved attitudes and team skills in healthcare trainees, highlighting the value of interdisciplinary geriatric curricula.

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Fulmer et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7f4dc62a9ffd173c6a95a4 https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264305277962

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Educational evaluation reveals improved attitudes and team skills in healthcare trainees, highlighting the value of interdisciplinary geriatric curricula.

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