Review: Two Online Curricula on Transitions of Care

Abstract

Transitional care is an important part of geriatric medicine that has not traditionally been taught to residents through formal curricula. This article reviews two online curricula available through the Portal of Geriatric Online Education. The two products reviewed here, appropriate for resident training, focus on care transitions from hospital to other care settings.

Using a Resident Discharge Clinic for Resident Education and Patient Care: A Feasibility Study

“…The RDC is an experience unlike existing didactic curricula for teaching discharge care because it provides a supervised clinical setting to practice posthospital care within the resident clinic. 13,22 Further objective evaluation of the educational effect of the RDC is needed and could be done by measuring outcomes related to the discharge process, such as frequency of medication reconciliation errors and missed test results after discharge.…”

Implementation of Milestones-Based Assessment for a Safe and Effective Discharge

“…6 There is a new focus on training physicians on how to safely perform this critical transition, making the transition process in need of innovative curricula. [7][8][9] Furthermore, one of the main sub-competencies focused on in residency accreditation is the resident's ability to transition patients effectively within and across health delivery systems. 10 Therefore, the discharge process is the perfect setting for competency-based assessment and entrustment innovations.…”