As the US population ages, recognizing and providing care for those with geriatric
syndromes will become ever more important. However, with most trainees learning in
hospitals, the opportunities for discovering practical ways of implementing geriatric
skills—such as assessment of delirium or identifying community services for dementia
patients, usually learned in the outpatient setting—are limited. Presently, short-form,
easily accessible resources teaching the mechanics of geriatric care are not available.
In order to ensure housestaff are exposed to geriatric principles and increase their
comfort with the same, we polled internal medicine and orthopedic surgery housestaff
on specific geriatric topics and designed a geriatric-focused podcast as a learning
supplement.
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