title: Development and preliminary evaluation of the resident coordinated-transitional care (RC-TraC) program: A sustainable option for transitional care education.
abstract: Older adults often face poor outcomes when transitioning from hospital to home. Although physicians play a key role in overseeing transitions, there is a lack of practice-based educational programs that prepare resident physicians to manage care transitions of older adults. An educational intervention to provide residents with real-life transitional care practice was therefore developed-Resident-coordinated Transitional Care (RC-TraC). RC-TraC adapted the evidence-based Coordinated-Transitional Care (C-TraC) nurse role for residents, providing opportunities to follow patients during the peri-hospital period without additional costs to the residency program. Between July 2010 and June 2013, 31 internal medicine residents participated in RC-TraC, caring for 721 patients. RC-TraC has been a sustainable, low-cost, practice-based education experience that is recognized as transitional care education by residents and continues in operation to this day. RC-TraC is a promising option for geriatric-based transitional care education of resident physicians and could also be adapted for nonphysician learners.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Division , University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health , Madison , Wisconsin USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.affiliation: a Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Division , University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health , Madison , Wisconsin USA.
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eastman
authors.affiliation: b University of Wisconsin School of Nursing , Madison , Wisconsin , USA.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gilmore-Bykovskyi
authors.affiliation: c Department of Medicine , University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health , Madison , Wisconsin USA.
authors.forename: Bennett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vogelman
authors.affiliation: a Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Division , University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health , Madison , Wisconsin USA.|c Department of Medicine , University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health , Madison , Wisconsin USA.|d Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), William S Middleton Hospital , United States Department of Veterans Affairs , Madison , Wisconsin USA.|e University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy , Madison , Wisconsin USA.
authors.forename: Amy Jo
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kind
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D000069341:Transitional Care
keywords: Active learning; clinical training; graduate medical education; physician education; program evaluation