Geriatrics Division
The proportion of people over the age of 65 will double to 22 % of the population in the next 30 years. Medical educators are asking a tough question: Are we training tomorrow’s health care team to address the needs of these patients? The mission of the Geriatric Division is to prepare learners at all levels of professional care for the challenges of caring for older patients. We do this by:
- Dedicated medical student teaching and patient care time in the required 3rd year Family Medicine clerkship
- Train family medicine residents alongside nurse practitioner and physician assistants students in a collaborative model during their required month long geriatric rotation in their first year of residency training
- Train Geriatric Fellows in the special patient care skills and challenges that are part of a career in caring for older patients
We use many community sites to accomplish these missions:
- Beautiful Independent Monk Ambulatory Geriatric Center
- State of the art Teaching Nursing Home Project at Golden Living Center- Greenville
- On site patient care in Memory, Assisted Living, and Skilled units at a local Continuing Care Retirement Community
- Multidisciplinary consultation clinics for memory disorders, falls, and medication management alongside faculty in occupational and physical therapy, pharmacy, and social work.
- Work closely with our geriatric psychiatry colleagues and our Alzheimer’s Support Group in the Monk Geriatric Center to provide caring and competent care to patients with these disorders.
Our faculty work closely with family medicine residents in the care and supervision of their older patients in local nursing homes. We also provide consultation services to patients in the community and hospital inpatient services.
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