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Geriatrics: Goals and Objectives
Goals
- To increase the resident’s fund of knowledge in geriatric medicine.
- To familiarize the resident with the workings of a life care community and placement of patients at appropriate levels of outpatient care.
- To introduce the resident to the role of the geriatrician in primary care and the geriatric team approach to the patient.
- To expose the resident to the ethical dilemmas encountered in the day to day care of the aging patient.
Objectives
- To provide a core curriculum of geriatric topics to learn through the AAFP monographs, articles, the lecture series and precepting.
- To learn how a multi-disciplinary team works in the care of the elderly through residents’ review and the Geriatric Assessment Unit.
- To understand functional assessment of the elderly patient, the standardized tools available for such an assessment, and the assistance physical therapy and nursing can give with such an assessment.
- To understand mental status assessment of the elderly patient, and how and when to apply a standardized assessment tool.
- To experience working with the elderly by providing care in the office setting and skilled nursing facility.
- To familiarize the residents with capabilities and limitations of the various levels of care; skilled nursing facility, personal care, assisted living and residential living in a life care community.
- To expose the resident to the roles of the various members of the health care team by spending time with physical therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, etc.
- To gain experience caring for the chronically ill.
- To have residents round in the skilled nursing facility and familiarize themselves with its physical makeup, staff and patient population.
- Residents will follow at least 2 patients in a nursing facility Residential during their PGY-2 and PGY-3 years.