Journal article
Impact of a mandatory geriatric medicine clerkship on the care of older acute medical patients: a retrospective cohort study
Abstract
BackgroundThe impact of geriatric medicine educational programs on patient level outcomes, as opposed to educational measures, is not well studied. We aimed to determine whether completion of a mandatory geriatrics rotation changed the clinical behaviors of clerks caring for older patients admitted to a medical clinical teaching unit.MethodsWe reviewed the charts of 132 older (>70y) patients, admitted to one medical clinical teaching unit (CTU) …
Authors
St Onge J; Ioannidis G; Papaioannou A; McLeod H; Marr S
Journal
BMC Medical Education, Vol. 13, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2013
DOI
10.1186/1472-6920-13-168
ISSN
1472-6920