TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching geriatric assessment in home visits
T2 - The family physician/geriatrician attachment
AU - Tandeter, Howard
AU - Peleg, Roni
AU - Menahem, Sasson
AU - Biderman, Aya
AU - Fried, Vera A.
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - Background: Geriatric clinical clerkships in Israel teach mostly about the hospitalized elder patient with almost no ambulatory experience. Meanwhile, primary care physicians provide most of the health care to the elderly in the community. This article describes an innovation in the curriculum of the 5th-year family medicine clerkship at the Goldman Medical School of Ben-Gurion University in Israel designed to improve the teaching of geriatrics in the ambulatory setting. Description: During the clerkship, family physicians perform a home visit to one of their home-ridden elderly patients with a small group of medical students. During this visit, a geriatrician from the local hospital is included to the group for teaching purposes. Evaluation: Most students rated this experience positively as did the family physicians and geriatricians who participated in this experience. Conclusions: This liaison-attachment teaching experience allows the students to learn aspects of geriatrics that are spared during their geriatric clerkship, allows the family physician to use this opportunity as a consultation for homebound patients, and allows the tertiary care geriatrician to teach in the community.
AB - Background: Geriatric clinical clerkships in Israel teach mostly about the hospitalized elder patient with almost no ambulatory experience. Meanwhile, primary care physicians provide most of the health care to the elderly in the community. This article describes an innovation in the curriculum of the 5th-year family medicine clerkship at the Goldman Medical School of Ben-Gurion University in Israel designed to improve the teaching of geriatrics in the ambulatory setting. Description: During the clerkship, family physicians perform a home visit to one of their home-ridden elderly patients with a small group of medical students. During this visit, a geriatrician from the local hospital is included to the group for teaching purposes. Evaluation: Most students rated this experience positively as did the family physicians and geriatricians who participated in this experience. Conclusions: This liaison-attachment teaching experience allows the students to learn aspects of geriatrics that are spared during their geriatric clerkship, allows the family physician to use this opportunity as a consultation for homebound patients, and allows the tertiary care geriatrician to teach in the community.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15328015TLM1502_09
DO - 10.1207/S15328015TLM1502_09
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0043280987
VL - 15
SP - 123
EP - 126
JO - Teaching and Learning in Medicine
JF - Teaching and Learning in Medicine
SN - 1040-1334
IS - 2
ER -