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Training More Physicians to Treat the Elderly is
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July 10, 2006 – As a step toward providing the U.S.
with more doctors skilled in treating the elderly, a $2-million dollar
grant has been awarded to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva
University and Montefiore Medical Center. The initiative, funded by the
Donal W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas, is known as the GeriEd
Program, which will contain both educational and clinical components.
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“Almost all physicians will be caring for older
adults in the years to come,” said program co-leader, Laurie Jacobs,
M.D., division chief of Geriatrics at Montefiore and director of the
Resnick Gerontology Center at Einstein, while noting that there are
currently only about 6,000 geriatricians – physicians who specialize in
the care of the elderly – in the nation.
“Our goal,” she said, “is to improve physicians’
skills in medicine as well as in navigating the healthcare system so
they can expertly and appropriately access available services and
programs for their elderly patients.”
The GeriEd Program is highly innovative. It
addresses fragmentation in geriatric care by targeting physicians who
provide acute or chronic primary care for the elderly – including
doctors who care for hospitalized patients, emergency room physicians,
internists and family practitioners. They, in turn, will influence and
improve geriatric care provided by Montefiore now and in the future.
“The program allows us to bridge the academic and
research environment at Einstein with the clinical and patient care
settings throughout Montefiore, offering innovative mentoring and
research opportunities that hopefully will lead some to consider
geriatrics as a focus for their careers at a time when we find ourselves
treating more and more patients who are elderly,” said Joe Verghese,
M.D., the grant co-leader and associate professor of Neurology at
Einstein, who is active in research regarding aging, falls, and
dementia, as well as in clinical care and training.
“Also, by teaming Neurology with Geriatrics, we
will work toward increasing awareness and recognition by medical
students, residents, and physicians of such common neurogeriatric
syndromes as dementia. At the same time, they will witness, firsthand,
how such collaborations benefit the needs of older patients.”
“Because Montefiore is an integrated healthcare
delivery system that treats patients throughout their lives, Montefiore
is an ideal place for this kind of program,” Dr. Jacobs said. “We see an
enormous number of elderly patients who need to be linked to a system of
care so that they are provided with appropriate treatments overall, and
their conditions tracked over time.”
Montefiore Medical Center, which is the main
teaching hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, houses one of
the largest residency programs in the United States and will develop the
GeriEd Program. The program will target 157 practicing physicians and
residents and 750 medical students annually.
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is a national
philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media
entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada,
it is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva
University, established in 1955, is one of the nation’s leading centers
for medical research and education. It is consistently among the
national leaders in terms of peer-reviewed research support. Particular
areas of research strength for which Einstein is widely renowned include
Alzheimer’s disease, neuroscience, cancer, heart disease, diabetes,
liver diseases, immunology, and molecular genetics. Einstein is also
among the most selective medical schools in the country. In recent years
it has received approximately 6,000 applications for the 180 places in
its first-year class.
Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital
and Academic Medical Center for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
ranks among the top one percent of all US hospitals based on its
investments in medical innovation and cutting-edge technology.
Montefiore’s unique combination of
‘state-of-the-art’ technology with ‘state-of-the-heart’ medical and
nursing care in a teaching and research environment offer patients
access to world-class medical experts, the newest and most innovative
treatments and the best medical center experience anywhere.
This 1,062 bed medical center includes the Henry
and Lucy Moses Division, the Jack D. Weiler Hospital and The Children’s
Hospital at Montefiore, a large home healthcare agency and a 21-site
medical group practice located throughout the Bronx and nearby
Westchester.
Montefiore treats all major illnesses and has
distinguished centers of excellence in cardiology and cardiac surgery,
cancer care, tissue and organ transplantation, children's health,
women's health, surgery and the surgical subspecialties.
Montefiore Medical Center focuses on providing
family-centered healthcare in a nurturing environment that extends well
beyond its hospital and ambulatory settings. Please visit
www.montefiore.org for more information.
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