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Cleveland Clinic implements geriatrics rotation for its students
Tuesday, May 08 2007 | Comments
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Faculty from the Cleveland Clinic created a new program that focuses on geriatrics and is mandatory for third- and fourth-year medical students at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.The 4-week curriculum, which was implemented April 9, focuses on geriatrics as well as common areas of health that are associated with older patients, such as women's health, female urology, palliative medicine and hospice, geropsychiatry, transitional care, and sleep medicine. Faculty aim to include a focus on audiology and ophthalmology in the future.
Students are trained at 15 sites, with more sites to be added in the future; they also participate in small group discussions, which feature topics such as normal aging, falls/gait assessment, dementia and caregiving, medication prescribing, osteoporosis, and insomnia and sleep.
Program participants gain both inpatient and outpatient geriatric experience and make >=1 home hospice visit. They are evaluated on their attendance and participation in small group discussions, on their weekly clinical performance, and on their home hospice report. (Suh TT. Poster C75.)
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