What Will the Title VII Trainees be doing in 2006?
All faculty members who were supported by Title VII geriatrics health professions funding will lessen their teaching responsibilities because they will need to cover the lost income through either increased clinical service or research. Three quarters of responding Program Directors reported that the loss of funding for these slots will mean that their programs will have less capacity to teach medical students and other trainees and less time to teach in the community. State-by-State Anecdotal Data We also asked the Geriatric Academic Program Directors to provide us with anecdotal data on the impact that the loss of Title VII funding will have on their products and services. Below are selected comments from the Program Directors that are a representative sample of the responses that we received. We have organized these by state and integrated the number of positions lost in each state into this section of the report. California # of Slots Lost: 15 Respondents: Bruce Ferrell, MD and Dav
