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The Jahnigen Awards Program addresses the urgent need to create a structure for developing leaders in geriatrics in academic surgery and related medical specialties. In time, it is hoped that this group of committed Jahnigen faculty will lead an advance in the way each discipline cares for older patients by improving the knowledge base, educational activities and clinical care and by participating in efforts to increase understanding of the geriatric aspects of their specialties on the national and local level. In June 2000, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society published a special article entitled, "A Statement of Principles: Toward Improved Care of Older Patients in Surgical and Medical Specialties." The statement, developed by leaders from each of the ten specialties targeted under this initiative, has appeared in a number of participating specialty publications. It sets forth the demographic and workforce issues that will impact on the provision of health care to older adults in the coming decades and presents a set of objectives accompanied by recommendations for achieving them. The Jahnigen Awards were established to address the recommendation that we must "encourage junior physicians and surgeons to become interested in the geriatric aspects of their discipline as a career focus, including funding career development awards for junior faculty in surgical and medical specialties" in order to "ameliorate the shortage of academic geriatricians and geriatric oriented specialists who are needed to accomplish many of the objectives set forth in the Principles."
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