Primary Care 2
Goals for this clerkship:
Students will:
- Develop an appreciation of the heterogeneity of the aging population
in terms of values, ambition, capabilities, and personalities.
- Develop an understanding of the importance of optimizing function
for older patients, rather than an exclusively disease-focused approach.
- Develop empathy towards issues related to death and dying including
the principles of palliative are.
- Develop a recognition of the essentially interdisciplinary nature
of caring for the biopsychological needs of older patients.
- Increase proficiency in and knowledge of the basic science of normal
and abnormal aging as well as the essentials of clinical geriatrics.
- Increase knowledge and experiences of the common geriatric syndromes
including altered mental status, iatrogenesis, mobility including falls,
sensory deficits, failure to thrive, sleep disorders, pressure ulcers, incontinence,
and non-specific presentation of disease.
- Increase knowledge of risk reduction and preventive care.
- Increase knowledge of health promotion and disorder prevention of
importance to the elderly.
- Increase knowledge of the ethical, legal, humanistic, and financial
aspects of geriatric care including advanced directives, determining decision-making
capacity, and end-of-life care as delineated in the EPEC curriculum.
- Learn methods of geriatric assessment using standardized methods
for assessing physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning. These
include screening for mental status, depression, functional status include
mobility assessment, activities of daily living and instrumental activities
of daily living.
