Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs

The Geriatric Education Coordinating Center, known as the Reynolds Project serves as a coordinating center for the work being done by the Aging and Quality of Life grantees. The Reynolds Project builds on the collaborations built over 12 years with the sharing of curriculum materials, successes, and lessons learned while transitioning annual Reynolds grantee meetings into alternate forums for diffusion of geriatrics innovations. The Reynolds Project also provides a centralized website (POGOe) for disseminating Reynolds grantees curriculum materials, lessons learned, successes, and overall program impact to all faculty and organizations interested in enhancing physician training in the care of older adults.

The Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) program provides cased based training in geriatrics principles to chief residents, who typically receive minimal exposure to geriatrics during their medical or surgical specialty residency training. The program is designed to foster institutional collaboration among disciplines to improve care coordination and quality for hospitalized, at-risk older adults, and to develop chief residents teaching and leadership skills with an emphasis on medically complex older patients. To date the CRIT program has been conducted over 30 times at 16 institutions nationwide. In 2017, a toolkit of materials developed for CRIT by Boston Medical Center was posted on GeriatricsCareOnline.org. The resources are available for free and are intended to provide the starting point for anyone interested in adoption a CRIT program at their institution.