The COVID-19 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Online Trainee Curriculum: Program Evaluation and Future Directions.

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic caused substantial disruptions in geriatric psychiatry education. In response, the AAGP created the "AAGP COVID-19 Online Trainee Curriculum" (Curriculum) a free online resource consisting of 33 recorded lectures. This study examined the uptake and impact of the Curriculum.

Ageism in the Mental Health Setting.

Purpose Of Review: This paper summarizes the prevalence, impact, and presentation of ageism across multiple mental health care settings including inpatient, outpatient, long-term care, and criminal justice. Strategies for combating ageism are described.

Recent Findings: Ageism is a common form of bias that has deleterious medical and psychosocial consequences for older adults.

Educating the Educator: Evaluation and Review of the ADMSEP Education Scholars Program.

Objective: This report examines the first 8 years of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP) Education Scholars Program (ESP) to determine the impact of the program on alumni careers and scholarship and their reception of the ESP. The 2-year longitudinal professional development program, launched in 2012, provides foundational knowledge to improve scholarship skills for faculty in psychiatry medical student education. The program is unique among national faculty development programs for psychiatry medical educators in its focus on scholarship and its requirement of completion of a research project in medical education.

The COVID-19 AAGP Online Trainee Curriculum: Development and Method of Initial Evaluation.

Objective: One effect of the COVID-19 pandemic is the disruption of in-person clinical experiences within geriatric psychiatry residency education. Online resources for trainees are needed to fill resultant gaps.

Methods: The American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Teaching and Training Committee leadership collaborated with geriatric psychiatry experts to develop a web-based geriatric psychiatry curriculum for psychiatry residents and other learners.

Geriatric Psychiatry Teaching in Canadian Medical Schools: a Cross-Sectional Study.

Objective: With a growing geriatric population and limited geriatric psychiatrists in Canada, it is crucial to provide sufficient training in geriatric psychiatry during medical school. The authors examined how geriatric psychiatry education is delivered in Canadian medical schools during clerkship. Factors that could be associated with increased geriatric psychiatry teaching in medical schools were examined.

Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Burnout Among Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education Trainees: a Systematic Review.

Objective: The authors conducted a systematic review of the published literature to identify interventions to prevent and/or reduce burnout among medical students and residents.

Methods: The authors searched 10 databases (from the start of each through September 21, 2016) using keywords related to burnout, medical education, and prevention. Teams of two authors independently reviewed the search results to select peer-reviewed, English language articles describing educational interventions to prevent and/or reduce burnout among medical students and/or residents that were evaluated using validated burnout measures.

Integrating humanities curricula in medical education: a literature review.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Medicine's increasing technologic complexities can constrain medical learners' development of patient-centered communication skills, and adversely impact patient outcomes.

The association of antidepressant treatment with COPD maintenance medication use and adherence in a comorbid Medicare population: A longitudinal cohort study.

Unlabelled: The effect of treating comorbid depression to achieve optimal management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has not yet empirically tested. We examined the association between antidepressant treatment and use of and adherence to COPD maintenance medications among patients with new-onset COPD and comorbid depression.

Methods: Using 2006-2012 Medicare data, this retrospective cohort study identified patients with newly diagnosed COPD and new-onset major depression.

Adherence and healthcare utilization among older adults with COPD and depression.

Background And Objective: Adherence to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) maintenance medications and antidepressants may reduce healthcare utilization among multimorbid individuals with COPD and depression. We quantified the independent effects of adherence to antidepressants and COPD maintenance medications on healthcare utilization among individuals co-diagnosed with COPD and depression.

Procedures: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using a 2006-2012 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries co-diagnosed with COPD and depression who had two or more prescription fills of both COPD maintenance medications and antidepressants.

Development of Geriatric Mental Health Learning Objectives for Medical Students: A Response to the Institute of Medicine 2012 Report.

America is aging as the population of older adults increases. The shortage of geriatric mental health specialists means that most geriatric mental healthcare will be provided by physicians who do not have specialty training in geriatrics. The Institute of Medicine Report of 2012 highlighted the urgent need for development of national competencies and curricula in geriatric mental health for all clinicians.

Recognizing and Managing Geriatric Depression: A Two-Part Self-Learning Module Set.

Introduction: The number of geriatric patients will increase dramatically over the next 2 decades, and providers across all specialties will need skills in diagnosis and management of common geriatric disorders. Geriatric depression is common and associated with significant psychiatric and medical morbidity yet is frequently not taught in clinical clerkships. To provide foundational knowledge on geriatric depression, we designed a two-part, online, self-learning module set for health professions learners.

Adherence to Maintenance Medications among Older Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The Role of Depression.

Rationale: Among individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), depression is one of the most common yet underrecognized and undertreated comorbidities. Although depression has been associated with reduced adherence to maintenance medications used in other conditions, such as diabetes, little research has assessed the role of depression in COPD medication use and adherence.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of depression on COPD maintenance medication adherence among a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries newly diagnosed with COPD.

New episodes of depression among Medicare beneficiaries with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Objectives: Depression is a common comorbidity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is associated with increased exacerbations, healthcare utilization, and mortality. Among Medicare beneficiaries newly diagnosed with COPD, the objectives of this study were to (1) estimate the rate of new episodes of depression and (2) identify factors associated with depression.

Methods: We identified beneficiaries with a first diagnosis of COPD during 2006-2012 using a 5% random sample of Medicare administrative claims data by searching for ICD-9-CM codes 490, 491.

Geriatric psychiatry in the psychiatry clerkship: a survey of current education practices.

Objective: The aging of the US population and shortage of geriatric psychiatrists mean that all medical students must be prepared to evaluate psychiatric symptoms in older patients. The authors sought to describe current geriatric psychiatry teaching practices during the psychiatry clerkship.

Methods: Psychiatry clerkship directors at 110 American medical schools were surveyed about didactic and clinical experiences of geriatric psychiatry.

Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Late Life Bipolar Disorder in the Community: Data from the NNDC Registry.

Objective: To compare clinical characteristics of older and younger patients with bipolar disorder enrolled in the United States' National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC) Clinical Care Registry (CCR).

Design: Multicenter, de-identified naturalistic data from the National NNDC's CCR for all patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder who were enrolled in the registry as of April 25, 2013.

Participants: Community-dwelling patients (N = 218), ages 18 years or older, with bipolar disorder diagnosis recruited by NNDC-affiliated medical centers to participate in the NNDC CCR.

The ADMSEP Education Scholars Program: a novel approach to cultivating scholarship among psychiatry educators.

The author describes the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry's Education Scholars Program, a 2-year longitudinal, guided mentorship program, anchored by didactic instruction in the fundamental concepts of educational scholarship.