title: Geriatric interdisciplinary team training program: evaluation results.
abstract: 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.
authors: New York University.
authors: Terry
authors: T
authors: Fulmer
authors: Kathryn
authors: K
authors: Hyer
authors: Ellen
authors: E
authors: Flaherty
authors: Mathy
authors: M
authors: Mezey
authors: Nancy
authors: N
authors: Whitelaw
authors: M Orry
authors: MO
authors: Jacobs
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Luchi
authors: Jennie Chin
authors: JC
authors: Hansen
authors: Denis A
authors: DA
authors: Evans
authors: Christine
authors: C
authors: Cassel
authors: Ernestine
authors: E
authors: Kotthoff-Burrell
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Kane
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Pfeiffer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education; D014481:United States; D014743:Videotape Recording