Background/objectives: Interprofessional trainees need geriatrics training to prepare them to care for our aging population. Team-based care will help them be ready to work in an Age-Friendly Health System. The Geriatrics 5Ms provides a framework to engage learners in five main domains of caring for older adults from an interprofessional perspective: Mobility, Mind, Medications, Multicomplexity, and what Matters Most.
Design: We created a half-day workshop for interprofessional trainees using the Geriatric 5Ms framework to increase their preparedness in caring for older adults as part of an interprofessional team.
Setting: The New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center.
Participants: A total of 66 trainees from 10 professions.
Intervention: After introductory sessions on careers in aging, participants engaged in an interactive session to learn about the professions represented. They then formed interprofessional groups to discuss a patient case using the Geriatrics 5Ms framework with a modified jigsaw format.
Measurements: Trainees were surveyed before and after the workshop on their attitudes toward careers in aging, understanding of skills and training paths of other professions, and familiarity with the Geriatrics 5Ms framework.
Results: Overall, 97% of the trainees rated the workshop highly. Trainee ratings significantly increased in the areas of understanding of other professions, and familiarity and applicability of the Geriatrics 5Ms, particularly for nonphysicians.
Conclusion: A workshop for interprofessional trainees using the Geriatrics 5Ms framework increased the readiness of trainees to care for older adults as part of an interprofessional team. This workshop offers a promising model for needed interprofessional geriatrics education. J Am Geriatr Soc 68:1857-1863, 2020.
Keywords: aging; clinical reasoning; geriatrics education; interdisciplinary; interprofessional trainees.
Published 2020. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.