This busy two week ambulatory care rotation takes learners to multiple care delivery sites. The learning objectives for this experience are based on the ACGME Core Competencies. To attain a copy of the learning objectives, click the following link: Ambulatory Geriatrics Learning Objectives

The four week PGY-1 Psychiatry Rotation is part of the psychiatry residency's mandatory IM experience. Learners rotate through multiple care sites and experiences, medical care of geriatric patients; many of whom are complex and have cognitive or mental illness. The learning objectives for the Psychiatry - IM Geriatrics rotation are found here Ambulatory Geriatrics Learning Objectives

Educational tools used include:

• Educational Modules
  • A Geriatric Interview with the Gynecologist
  • Aortic Stenosis
  • Back Pain in the Older Adult
  • Cognitive Assessment in the Elderly
  • Delirium
  • Evaluation & Management of Late Life Psychosis
  • Gait Disorders in the Elderly
  • Histology: Blood & Defense System
  • Histology: Cardiovascular System
  • Histology: Musculoskeletal System
  • Histology: Skin
  • Histology: Urinary System
  • Communication Skills
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Teamwork
  • Values & Ethics
  • Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly

• Larry Irvin Learning Center
• Pills, Pills and More Pills: A Pill Box Exercise to Reduce Polypharmacy

  An interactive, "hands-on" polypharmacy experience paired with group reflection, improves learner knowledge of medication adherence barriers and solutions, resulting in decreased number and dosing frequency of medications of their elderly patients. Each learner is given a pill box to fill with "medications" (various candies) according to the medication list of an actual geriatric patient. The learners fill the boxes, and a faculty member facilitates a discussion about challenges to filling the box (e.g., dementia, arthritis, visual loss, neuropathy). Learners are instructed to take the "medications", as prescribed, for one week.
  Geriatric Medicine - Pearls and Pitfalls - A lecture focused on the consequences, risk factors and preventative measures of polypharmacy as well as the most recent clinical practice guideline updates as they pertain to the elderly population.

• Competency checklist