CORE--EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TRANSFER CORE

哥伦比亚大学教育和信息核心的目标是为医生提供培训，促进研究参与者的招募和保留，并制定外展计划，以促进ADRC活动。为了实现这一目标，我们将继续设计和实施研讨会，演讲，出版物和CME课程，以使临床医生熟悉痴呆症诊断，治疗和管理的护理标准和研究趋势。我们将继续对我们的项目进行严格评估，以确保它们满足教育目标和目的。在接下来的5年里，教育核心将为培训中的医生制定一个全面的教育计划。我们已经为第一年的神经病学住院医师试行了这一计划，该计划将扩大为一个小型奖学金，包括住院医师和其他医学学科的研究员。临床核心招募的新队列需要创建一个教育计划，旨在克服少数族裔招募到临床研究和尸检计划的障碍。这批新的社区居住参与者，从北方曼哈顿的伊莎贝拉老年中心接受家庭护理，主要是西班牙裔或非洲裔美国人。将创建具有文化敏感性的信息、演示文稿和材料，以解决参与临床试验和获得尸检许可的态度和障碍。评估这些计划的有效性的方法将在哥伦比亚大学课程评估和教师支持中心的协助下开发。教育核心将继续我们的服务具体活动，提供教育的照顾者和外行公众有关疾病的治疗和研究的机会。服务的另一个具体目标是通过设计针对少数民族的教育方案，促进遗传学倡议的招募。

The objectives of the Columbia University Education and Information Core are to provide training to physicians, facilitate recruitment and retention of research participants, and develop outreach programs to promote ADRC activities. To accomplish this, we will continue designing and implementing seminars, presentations, publications, and CME courses to familiarize clinicians with standard of care and research trends in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of dementia. We will continue the rigorous evaluation of our programs to ensure that they meet the educational objectives and goals. Over the next 5 years, the Education Core will develop a comprehensive education program for physicians-in-training. We have already piloted this program for first-year neurology residents and the program will be expanded into a mini-fellowship to include residents and fellows from other disciplines of medicine. The new cohort to be enrolled by the Clinical Core requires creating an educational program designed to overcome barriers to minority recruitment into clinical research and autopsy programs. This new cohort of community dwelling participants, receiving home care from the Isabella Geriatric Center in Northern Manhattan, are predominantly Hispanic or African American. Culturally sensitive information, presentations and materials will be created to address the attitudes and obstacles to participating in clinical trials and obtaining permission for autopsy. Methods of evaluating the effectiveness of these programs will be developed with the assistance of the Center for Curriculum Evaluation and Faculty Support at Columbia University. The Education Core will continue our service specific activities of providing education to caregivers and the lay public about disease treatment and research opportunities. Another service specific aim is to facilitate recruitment into the genetics initiative by designing educational programs targeted to minorities.