The Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents (GSR)
Optional Mentoring Program

About the (Optional) Mentoring Program Program Overview Mentoring Eligibility Mentoring Activities Duration Progress Reports

Applying for a Mentor Application Timetable Application Mentorship Selection

Program Overview
The Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents (GSR) program addresses the urgent need to create a structure for developing geriatric leaders in academic surgery, surgical specialties and related medical specialties. It allows interested specialists to work in collaboration with the geriatrics program in their institution, to develop educational programs which will enhance the knowledge and skills in geriatrics of specialist residents.

The Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents (GSR) Mentoring program will provide a supportive mentoring relationship between past GSR award recipients and GSR applicants with the purpose of affording applicants an opportunity to develop more competitive proposals.

Mentoring is geared towards both re-applicants and smaller specialty residency training programs that may not feel competitive for funding in the GSR program. The goal is to enhance the capacity of these residency programs to compete more effectively for GSR funding.

We anticipate mentoring of grantees will range from facilitating the adaptation of existing materials to the needs of the applicant institution to advising programs as they develop wholly new programs within their own institutions

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Application Timetable

Please note that the deadline has passed. For further assistance or questions, please feel free to contact Rachael Edberg Silverman, redberg@americangeriatrics.org or Elizabeth Haranas eharanas@americangeriatrics.org

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Mentoring Eligibility
Mentoring support is available to programs seeking to take advantage of this opportunity. Programs must meet all eligibility requirements of the GSR program in order to be considered for mentoring.

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Mentoring Activities
Potential areas of mentoring include: grant writing concepts, curriculum development, program management, how to work effectively with their geriatrics partners and identification of useful educational resources.

The mentoring will be a structured relationship over a prolonged period of time wherein:

• A site visit may be conducted by the mentor
  
  
• Mentors will be available to consult with applicants via telephone and email as they develop their applications, offering guidance and feedback on the application.
  
  
• Mentors will help specialty program directors to identify how to maximize available resources within their own institutions as well as make linkages to external resources if those are needed.
  
  
• Mentors will be available to advise programs once they have been awarded GSR funding on issues that may arise during development and implementation of their own programs.

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Duration
Where the applicant program is selected for GSR funding, the mentorship will last a minimum of one year.

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Progress reports
Intermittent progress reports are required to determine if the mentorship is proceeding smoothly.

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Mentorship Selection
Project leaders will make every effort to match mentors based on the specific needs identified by the applicant and the expertise of the mentor, while at the same time being sensitive to the geographic proximity of the mentors to mentees.

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