Appendix 2: American Osteopathic Association Specialty Board Certification

Scheinthal, Stephen; Kramer, Jeffrey A.; Morales-Egizi, Leo

doi:10.7556/jaoa.2016.051

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“…This figure is expected to triple over the next 3 decades, yet the number of healthcare professionals engaging or specializing in the care of older adults, including the care of older adults with mental health or substance use (MH/SU) conditions, remains woefully inadequate . For example, there are only 1,577 board‐certified geriatric psychiatrists and 7,293 board‐certified geriatricians in the United States. Difficulty quantifying the number of healthcare professionals in other disciplines engaging in MH/SU compounds this situation.…”

Section: Interprofessional Team Training and Competency In Geriatricsmentioning

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State of the Science: Interprofessional Approaches to Aging, Dementia, and Mental Health

Farrell

Luptak

Supiano

et al. 2018

J American Geriatrics Society

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Interprofessional education (IPE) is essential to develop the healthcare workforce of the future. Geriatrics healthcare professionals have long championed innovations in IPE and patient care, but there is increased urgency to address challenges in aging, dementia, and geriatric mental health in America. In 2010, the Partnership for Health in Aging multidisciplinary competencies and a related position statement in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society addressed interdisciplinary team (IDT) training in geriatrics. The position statement reported that training in higher education, academic, and continuing education settings has not been sufficiently responsive to workforce needs. In recent years, health professions educators and health systems leaders have increasingly recognized that IPE should be integrally linked with, and performed within, emerging models of team-based, value-driven health care. In this way, IPE will align with learning healthcare systems' pursuit of the Quadruple Aim: improving patient experience, provider experience, and the health of populations, and reducing per capita health care costs. Backed by decades of developing effective team care models and the skill set needed to care for older adults with complex needs, geriatrics healthcare providers from multiple disciplines are uniquely positioned to lead learning healthcare systems in a new effort to develop, implement, and sustain IPE and practice models congruent with these Aims. We provide recommendations for health professions educators, healthcare systems leaders, and policymakers to realize the potential of IPE and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) to improve the health of all Americans in aging, dementia, and mental health.

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Section: Interprofessional Team Training and Competency In Geriatricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

State of the Science: Interprofessional Approaches to Aging, Dementia, and Mental Health

Farrell

Luptak

Supiano

et al. 2018

J American Geriatrics Society

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“… 24 ) Thus, 1,500 geriatricians per year are required over the next years to fulfill the need for certified geriatricians. 25 ) The number of older people aged ≥80 years per geriatrician varies from 450 in Austria to 25,000 in Turkey. 18 ) The results of this study suggested the need to double the number of geriatricians.…”

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Health-Related Unmet Needs of Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Nationwide Representative Descriptive Study in Korea

Huh

Son

Lee

et al. 2023

Ann Geriatr Med Res

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Background: South Korea has no official geriatric specialties or subspecialties. Moreover, studies on the unmet needs related to geriatric health problems in older Korean adults are scarce. Therefore, we investigated the unmet needs regarding geriatric health problems among older Korean adults. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 411 Korean adults aged ≥70 years. We constructed a questionnaire for a field survey that comprised 21 items to understand the geriatric challenges related to the participants’ physicians and the necessity for geriatric physicians to resolve participants’ health problems. We used unweighted numbers (weighted percentages) or mean±standard deviation to describe the characteristics of the study participants for categorical and continuous variables, respectively.Results: This study included a total of 411 men and women. The mean age was 77.6±5.9 years. Among the participants, 88.6% had one or more chronic diseases (mean number of chronic diseases, 2.0±1.3). Of the participants, 32.8% said that their physicians did not spend enough time addressing their problems and only 24.3% felt that their physicians understood geriatric problems well. Of these, 76.2% (n=313) said that geriatricians were required to fulfill their unmet healthcare needs.Conclusions: The participants reported the need for help from a geriatrician, although most of the participants consulted regular physicians about their health problems. The study results support that geriatricians are needed to improve health services for older adults.

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“…Even before 2015, the majority of DOs in ACGME programs opted for the ABMS pathway. 21,22 The risk for the osteopathic profession is that this trend will continue and even increase. If most DOs pursue ABMS certification, it will make it difficult for osteopathic certifying boards to survive, especially in smaller non–primary care specialties.…”

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The Single Accreditation System: Risks to the Osteopathic Profession

Cummings

2021

Academic Medicine

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In August 2014, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to create the Single Accreditation System (SAS) for graduate medical education (GME) in the United States. The AOA made the decision that it would close its GME accreditation system in response to dramatic growth in colleges of osteopathic medicine, a shortfall in osteopathic GME positions with increasing dependence on the ACGME system, ACGME policy decisions that adversely impacted osteopathic students, and declining osteopathic student interest in primary care.

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Appendix 2: American Osteopathic Association Specialty Board Certification

Cited by 6 publications

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State of the Science: Interprofessional Approaches to Aging, Dementia, and Mental Health

State of the Science: Interprofessional Approaches to Aging, Dementia, and Mental Health

Health-Related Unmet Needs of Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Nationwide Representative Descriptive Study in Korea

The Single Accreditation System: Risks to the Osteopathic Profession

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