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Educational Needs in Geriatric Medicine Among Health Care Professionals and Medical Students in COST Action 21122 PROGRAMMING : Mixed-Methods Survey Protocol

Ogliari, Giulia ; Masud, Tahir ; Herghelegiu, Anna Marie ; Pavic, Tajana ; Ekdahl, Anne Wissendorff LU orcid ; Piotrowicz, Karolina ; Duque, Sofia ; Benetos, Athanase ; Bogdanovic, Nenad and Bonin-Guillaume, Sylvie , et al. (2025) In JMIR Research Protocols 14.
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Background: The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action 21122, PROmoting GeRiAtric Medicine in countries where it is still eMergING (PROGRAMMING) developed an online open survey to assess the educational interests and needs of health care professionals and final-year medical students across participating countries. This survey aims to establish a current baseline for developing educational content on geriatric medicine for nongeriatricians and a framework for its delivery. Objective: This paper describes the aim, development, structure, content, and dissemination of this survey. Methods: The mixed methods electronic survey, initially developed in English through a cocreation process with key stakeholders, was... (More)

Background: The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action 21122, PROmoting GeRiAtric Medicine in countries where it is still eMergING (PROGRAMMING) developed an online open survey to assess the educational interests and needs of health care professionals and final-year medical students across participating countries. This survey aims to establish a current baseline for developing educational content on geriatric medicine for nongeriatricians and a framework for its delivery. Objective: This paper describes the aim, development, structure, content, and dissemination of this survey. Methods: The mixed methods electronic survey, initially developed in English through a cocreation process with key stakeholders, was subsequently translated into 24 languages. It received ethics approval from multiple participating countries. Within- and cross-country analyses of the survey data will be conducted using descriptive and inferential statistics for quantitative data and content analyses for qualitative data. National and international teams will conduct analyses in parallel exploring responses within a specific country or region, professional category (or among medical students), or setting of work. Basic descriptive statistics and chi-square tests will evaluate differences in knowledge, relevance, and interest in geriatric topics across countries, professions, and settings of work. The effectiveness of formal education in geriatric medicine and clinical rotations in geriatric settings versus the lack thereof in promoting higher self-perceived knowledge on geriatric medicine topics will be explored using binary logistic regression. We will provide basic descriptive statistics (frequencies) of reported barriers to receiving further training in geriatric medicine and the effectiveness of various teaching methods as rated by the respondents and explore differences across countries, professions, and settings using chi-square tests. We will conduct qualitative content analyses of free-text responses to the questions exploring professionals’ and medical students’ thoughts on caring for older people and medical students’ thoughts on becoming geriatricians. Results: The survey included the following sections: Informed Consent, Demographics, Topics and Skills, Medical Students vs. Professionals, Current Profession (for professionals), Previous Education in Geriatric Medicine (for professionals), Education in Geriatric Medicine (for medical students), Interest in Care of Older People or Geriatric Medicine, Suggestions for Courses in Care for Older People or Geriatric Medicine, and Closure. The survey was disseminated between October 9, 2023, and June 5, 2024, and received 6099 responses; after cleaning, there were 5922 (97.1%) responses (n=5474, 92.43% from professionals and n=448, 7.57% from medical students). Conclusions: This survey’s findings will inform educational projects across the PROGRAMMING countries. We will share these findings with national and international stakeholders, including professional societies, medical schools, and other relevant organizations. We will advocate for professional educational curricula to include geriatric topics rated as relevant by the survey respondents and promote clinical rotations in geriatric settings and teaching methods rated as effective by the survey respondents.

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emerging geriatric medicine, geriatric medicine education, health care professionals, open online survey, qualitative research, questionnaire design, teaching methods
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Publisher Copyright: ©Giulia Ogliari, Tahir Masud, Anna Marie Herghelegiu, Tajana Pavic, Anne Wissendorff Ekdahl, Karolina Piotrowicz, Sofia Duque, Athanase Benetos, Nenad Bogdanovic, Sylvie Bonin-Guillaume, Rachael Frost, Meltem Koca, Anastassia Kossioni, Evrydiki Kravvariti, Nicolas Martínez-Velilla, William McKeown, Regina Roller-Wirnsberger, Sumru Savas, Michael Vassallo, Tamar Yellon, Mirko Petrovic, Marina Kotsani, Collaborators of the PROGRAMMING survey on educational needs.
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  author       = {{Ogliari, Giulia and Masud, Tahir and Herghelegiu, Anna Marie and Pavic, Tajana and Ekdahl, Anne Wissendorff and Piotrowicz, Karolina and Duque, Sofia and Benetos, Athanase and Bogdanovic, Nenad and Bonin-Guillaume, Sylvie and Frost, Rachael and Koca, Meltem and Kossioni, Anastassia and Kravvariti, Evrydiki and Martínez-Velilla, Nicolas and McKeown, William and Roller-Wirnsberger, Regina and Savas, Sumru and Vassallo, Michael and Yellon, Tamar and Petrovic, Mirko and Kotsani, Marina}},
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  keywords     = {{emerging geriatric medicine; geriatric medicine education; health care professionals; open online survey; qualitative research; questionnaire design; teaching methods}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{JMIR Publications Inc.}},
  series       = {{JMIR Research Protocols}},
  title        = {{Educational Needs in Geriatric Medicine Among Health Care Professionals and Medical Students in COST Action 21122 PROGRAMMING : Mixed-Methods Survey Protocol}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/64985}},
  doi          = {{10.2196/64985}},
  volume       = {{14}},
  year         = {{2025}},
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