Geriatric Clerkship
Two-week required clerkship for fourth year
medical students.
- eight, two-week, consecutive rotations scheduled during
the academic year
- twelve to thirteen students assigned to attend each
clerkship
- Required text is Merck Manual of Geriatrics (third
edition)
Clerkship Description
- Utilize over 30 clinical sites and medical offices
including:
- nursing/rehabilitation centers
- hospital
- adult care residences
- home health agencies
- assisted living homes
- palliative care/hospice organizations
- continuing care community
- specialty practices (podiatry, dermatology, physical
medicine and rehab, neuro-psychology, geriatric psychiatry, and ear, nose & throat)
- Provide didactic sessions on the following topics:
- advance directives
- biology of aging
- clinical pharmacology
- community resources
- delirium
- dementia
- depression
- dermatology
- diabetes
- dizziness
- falls
-
fitness
- geriatric assessment
- healthy aging
- incontinence
- nutrition
- osteoporosis
- peri-operative evaluation
- podiatry
- pressure ulcers
- vertigo
- Facilitate discussions groups with:
- residents of assisted living facilities
- caregivers for older relatives with long term care needs
- patients and caregivers receiving palliative care
- residents of a local continuing care/retirement community
- rehabilitation specialists (occupational, physical, speech
and respiratory)
- Involve faculty from EVMS departments of:
- Family and Community Medicine.
- Internal Medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Pathology and Anatomy
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Physiological Sciences
- Require final exam consisting of:
- geriatric patient case presentation to faculty
- patient referred by home-health
- includes complete History & Physical, physical status,
social history, hearing and vision screening, mini-mental status exam, depression
screening, assessment of ADLs and IADLs, gait, balance, continence and home safety check
- written examination covering didactics and reading
assignments
For more information, please contact
Madeline Dunstan, Associate Director of Education
Glennan Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Hofheimer Hall, Suite 201
Phone: (757) 446-7436
Email: dunstaml@evms.edu
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