The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has updated its Milestones tool for assessing geriatrics fellows. Shoshana Streiter, MD, and colleagues outlined a four-step process for geriatric fellowship programs to transition from the original Milestones to Milestones 2.0.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently spoke with faculty who are core clinical teachers about how to better integrate geriatrics education into internal medicine residency programs, as the proportion of U.S. individuals over 65 continues to rise.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers recently reviewed 33 studies that reported how yoga affected individual metrics of frailty. They found that practicing yoga improved known predictors of longevity, such as walking speed and leg strength.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers used the Physicians’ Health Study I to study the relationship between long-term aspirin use and self-reported walking speed. They report men who started aspirin use in middle age had greater probability of faster walking speeds in late life than men who reported low aspirin use.