MDE 8140 Geriatric Medicine

Credit Hours: var.

The geriatric rotation will offer experience to observe and manage elderly patients with a wide variety of medical conditions on an inpatient and outpatient basis. The student functions as a member of a team with a resident and attending physicians, offering care for patients in acute, ambulatory, community and long-term care settings, in order to understand the interaction of natural aging and disease as well as the techniques of assessment, therapy and chronic and acute disease management.

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Co-Prerequisite(s): None

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