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The 2025 Big “G” Geriatrician: Defining Job Roles to Guide Fellowship Training
Author(s) -
Simpson Deborah,
Leipzig Rosanne M.,
Sauvigné Karen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/jgs.14995
Subject(s) - medicine , geriatrics , health care , innovator , value (mathematics) , gerontology , medical education , nursing , intellectual property , psychiatry , machine learning , computer science , economics , economic growth , operating system
Changes in health care that are already in progress, including value‐ and population‐based care, use of new technologies for care, big data and machine learning, and the patient as consumer and decision maker, will determine the job description for geriatricians practicing in 2025. Informed by these future certainties, 115 geriatrics educators attending the 2016 Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Annual meeting identified five 2025 geriatrician job roles: complexivist; consultant; health system leader and innovator; functional preventionist; and educator for big “G” and little “g” providers. By identifying these job roles, geriatrics fellowship training can be preemptively redesigned.