Web-GEMs Facul Be a Quicker, Better Geri 2016 web-GEMs Faculty Guides Be a Quicker, Better Geriatrics Educator
web-GEMs is a series of interactive case modules linked to the AAMC Geriatrics Competencies for Medical
Students. This peer-reviewed endeavor began in 2010 and was spearheaded by faculty from the medical
schools at University of Texas Southwestern, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, University of
Alabama at Birmingham, University of Arizona, Vanderbilt University, and Wake Forest University.
Individual cases can be integrated into third year clerkships for medical students or nurse
practitioner/physician assistant program clinical training. The cases could be integrated into individual
clerkships over the course of the year (e.g., neurology, psychiatry, internal medicine, emergency medicine,
surgery, and OB/GYN), or the curriculum can be used as a whole within geriatrics, internal medicine, or
family medicine clerkships. If a student completes all of the web-GEM cases, each of the AAMC Geriatrics
Competencies will have been touched on. The purpose of the web-GEMs cases is to develop learners’
understanding of geriatric medicine, to learn to “think like a geriatrician” and to integrate that understanding
as they expand their skills within other specialties.