Southwestern Aging and Geriatrics Education (SAGE Program)
The Southwestern Aging and Geriatrics Education Program (UT SAGE) is a comprehensive initiative designed to increase geriatrics education at UT Southwestern Medical Center through an innovative curriculum that emphasizes patient safety and patient-centered care for the vulnerable elderly.
UT SAGE was created through a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation with strong institutional support from across the UT Southwestern campus.
Sage Scholars
To encourage the development of surgical specialty and Internal Medicine subspecialty geriatrics educational materials, the Reynolds-UT SAGE grant provided funds for 3 faculty each year between 2009-2012. These SAGE scholars were identified through a competitive process.
SAGE Scholars - 2012
"Evaluation and Management of Late-Life Psychosis"
Project: A self-directed, web-based, interactive educational module that teaches medical students and residents how to recognize, evaluate, and treat psychosis in older adults through didactic information, clinical vignettes, and videos.
Principal Investigator: Mary "Molly" Camp, M.D.
Mary Ellen Bret, MD, Co-Investigator
Department of Psychiatry
"My Aching Back: An Approach to the Evaluation and Management of Back Pain in Older Adults: A Web-based Interactive Educational Module"
Project: A self-directed, web-based, interactive educational module addressing the evaluation and management of back pain in older adult. Module includes epidemiology, diagnosis, pharmacological/non-pharmacological management, and clinical vignettes.
Principal Investigator: Una E. Makris, M.D.,
Section of Rheumatic Disorders
SAGE Scholars - 2011
"Cognitive Assessment in Normal, Mildly Impaired, and Demented Elderly"
Project: An interactive video module to increase comfort and understanding of the tools used in evaluation and treatment of cognitive disorders. The module will be available to our medical students, primary care residents, subspecialty residents and fellows. It will also be placed on POGOe for wider distribution.
Principal Investigator: Mary Quiceno, M.D.
Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics
"Degenerative Aortic Stenosis"
Project: An interactive computer module about aortic stenosis that allows the housestaff to have a standardized, teaching method that covers multiple components of the disease.
Principal Investigator: Melanie Sulistio, M.D.
Division of Cardiology
"Gait Disorders in the Elderly"
Project: An interactive video module to improve the awareness of various geriatric gait disorders as well as to teach learners how to recognize the normal patterns of gait in the elderly. As such, this module will help to improve evaluation & timely detection of gait problems.
Principal Investigator: Richard Dewey, M.D.
Co-Principal Investigator: Shilpa Chitnis, M.D.
Co-Principal Investigator: Cherian Abraham-Karunapuzha, M.D.
Section of Movement Disorders
SAGE Scholars - 2010
"The Evaluation and Management of Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly: An Interactive Web-Based Curriculum for Medical Students"
Project: A comprehensive core curriculum on UI in the elderly. After completion of the program, medical students will have been trained in the basic evaluation and treatment of UI in the elderly.
Principal Investigator: Philippe Zimmern, M.D.
Department of Urology
"Utilization of Geriatric Assessment Tools in Ambulatory Care Setting for Improving the Quality of Patient Care Provided by the Resident Trainees"
Project: The project aims to incorporate several validated geriatric assessment tools (falls risk assessment, pain assessment, geriatric depression screening, Get up and go test, urinary incontinence screen etc.) in the evaluation of patients aged 75 years or older as part of their initial outpatient assessment, formulating a treatment plan using available resources and assessing patient satisfaction by a questionnaire survey sent to the patients at the end of the year.
Principal Investigator: Sujata Bhushan, M.D.
General Internal Medicine, VA Medical Center
SAGE Scholars - 2009
"An Ambulatory Geriatrics Education Program for ObGyn Residents"
Project: A coordinated series of training modules for ObGyn residents in ambulatory geriatric care of the gynecologic patient.
Principal Investigator: Mary Jane Pearson, M.D.
Co-Principal Investigator: Irwin Kerber, M.D.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Development of a Web-based Interactive Educational Module to Expand Training on Normal Tissue Aging in the Medical School Curriculum"
Project: A series of interactive modules in which aging-related changes relating to anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology as well as cell biology and histology are demonstrated.
Principal Investigator: Judith Head, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology
"Numb and Number: Peripheral Neuropathy in the Elderly"
Project: A learning module with a clinically relevant summary of the structure and function of the peripheral and autonomic nervous systems and the mechanisms by which they may become impaired. The module includes vignettes to illustrate commonly encountered geriatric clinical scenarios.
Principal Investigator: Mike Singer, M.D., Ph.D.,
Department of Neurology