PMID: 7336715Dec 1, 1981Paper

Geriatric education in a teaching hospital: the role of geriatric services

The Western Journal of Medicine
L Z FeigenbaumH Brownstein

Abstract

Geriatric education and training are most successful when taught in a setting that provides the medical and social services that elderly persons often require. At Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, medical students and trainees participate in several geriatric services that introduce them to the special health needs of the elderly, including the ambulant and the homebound. In the Mount Zion/University of California, San Francisco, geriatric education and training program, we have defined three principles of geriatric medicine that are unique to the field and are best applied directly within the service setting. This setting emphasizes (1) the special body of knowledge regarding aging and health care of the elderly, (2) the importance of assessing functional capacity and (3) the role of the health team. Our experience indicates that when students and trainees observe the application of these principles in a range of geriatric services they begin to understand the complex health problems with which geriatric medicine is concerned.

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