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de Stampa, Matthieu; Vedel, Isabelle; Bergman, Howard; Novella, Jean-Luc; Lechowski, Laurent; Ankri, Joel; Lapointe, Liette – Gerontologist, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to understand better the clinical collaboration process among primary care physicians (PCPs), case managers (CMs), and geriatricians in integrated models of care. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study with semistructured interviews. A purposive sample of 35 PCPs, 7 CMs, and 4 geriatricians was selected in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interprofessional Relationship, Teamwork, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Blanchette, Patricia Lanoie; And Others – Generations, 1997
This issue includes 18 theme articles that examine clinical care, conditions, and practice as they relate to older adults. It contains articles on the following: men's and women's health, depression, dementia, hypertension, incontinence, bone pain, infections, preventive medicine, geriatric medicine, health care delivery, managed care, long-term…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Cultural Differences, Diseases
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Lewis, Roya; Lamdan, Ruth M.; Wald, David; Curtis, Michael – Academic Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Gender bias has been reported in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a variety of illnesses. In the context of our 10-station fourth year Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation, we queried whether this could influence diagnosis in a geriatric case. Case writers hypothesized that, due to this bias, the female standardized…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Identification, Geriatrics, Patients
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Pawlson, L. Gregory – Journal of Medical Education, 1982
Evidence is presented to support the development of the nursing home as a required clinical educational site. Analogies and differences between the nursing home and the hospital in medical education are explored as a means of understanding the potential and limits of the nursing home's role in medical education. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Comparative Analysis, Geriatrics, Higher Education
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And Others; Goodson, John D. – Journal of Medical Education, 1981
A study describing demographic, residential, health, and utilization characteristics of patients over 70 years of age followed in a hospital-based teaching group practice is presented. It is concluded that physicians' training should include management--for an extended period of time--a cohort of elderly, independent, ambulatory patients.…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Comparative Analysis, Geriatrics, Higher Education
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Osterud, Harold T.; Rose, Beatrice K. – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
A geriatric health maintenance program, started as a community medicine elective and now an innovative model in humanistic health care, is described. Junior and senior medical students act as live-in facilitators of comprehensive health care for the elderly tenants in publicly subsidized housing units. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Community Services, Geriatrics, Higher Education
Yeo, Gwen; Tully, Donna – 1987
This manual is intended to acquaint the faculty of physician assistant (PA) training programs with a model geriatric clerkship and to assist them in the process in implementing a similar clerkship. A detailed outline of the curriculum goals of a geriatric clerkship is included. The next section contains curriculum units on the following topics:…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Clinical Experience, Communication Skills