Internal Medicine Residents will train on Geriatric services to:
- Learn an interdisciplinary approach to health care of older adults including:
- Diagnose and manage medical problems of older adults
- Provide medical care of the older surgical patient, including pre-operative evaluation and post-operative management
- Perform comprehensive assessments of functional status and appropriate levels of care
- Master discharge planning to optimize use of community and outpatient services available to older adults
- Assess and manage ambulatory community-based older adults
- Care for institutionalized long-term care patients
- Learn the principles of caring for chronically ill and older patients with acute and sub-acute medical issues, and care for dying patients and their families
- Provide experience with frail older patients with multiple medical, psychiatric, cognitive, socio-economic and/or functional problems
- Explain the various locations and types of services in the Northeast Georgia communities which provide resources and safety net services for seniors.