- Introduction to the Patient Course (ICM)
A small group classroom-based course which includes geriatrics content on sexuality and aging, Medicare and Medicaid, home care, ethics, and elder abuse.
- ICM Clinical Experience Program in Geriatric Medicine
Exposes students to the unique issues involved in providing medical care to older adults and introduces basic medical interviewing skills utilized in clinical patient encounters.
The Program in Geriatric Medicine was first offered in 2002. This program is designed to expose students to the unique issues that are involved in providing medical care to older adults while introducing students to the basic medical interviewing skills that are utilized in clinical encounters with patients. Fifteen to twenty first year medical students see patients in seven academic and community based geriatrics clinical sites, which include an ambulatory geriatric practice, home visit program, and long-term care.
Students spend a half-day a week over a 6-month period working with an attending geriatrician. At their primary sites, students learn to obtain a complete medical history with particular focus on issues central to geriatrics. These comprise the mental status exam, the social and functional history, and palliative care.
Students work with a multidisciplinary team and come to understand how health care professionals from a number of disciplines are required to provide care for the complex geriatric patient. They also participate in group sessions where they explore the topics of dementia, depression, healthy aging and the impact of chronic illness on the patient and their families. The groups explore these issues through interviews with patients and their families. Students from all sites are exposed to home visiting as an integral part of the care of the frail, homebound elderly.
The program is held at multiple sites:
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Hebrew Home Aged-Riverdale
- Beth Abraham - Comprehensive Care Management (Bronx)
- Beth Abraham - Comprehensive Care Management (Chinatown)
- The Jewish Home & Hospital
- Private Geriatrics Practices-Bronx
Contact
Amy Ehrlich, MD
aehrlich@montefiore.org
- Successful Aging Module
Provides students with a continuity experience with a community-dwelling older adult.
This module, designed for selected students enrolled in the ICM Clinical Experience Geriatric Medicine Program, provides students a continuity experience with a community-dwelling older adult.
Students complete an in-depth medical and psychosocial history over the course of three home visits. These healthy older adults are all residents of a NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community).
The Einstein Division of Geriatrics is a recipient of an Einstein Grant for Excellence in Medical Education. This funding allows the Clinical Experience Program in Geriatric Medicine to offer some students the opportunity to have an ongoing relationship with a community dwelling older person. These encounters will occur in the older person’s home and will introduce the concept of healthy and successful aging into the curriculum.
Contact
Amy Ehrlich, MD
aehrlich@montefiore.org
- Faculty Development: Geriatrics Program Preceptors
A half-day faculty development course offered annually to community geriatricians.
A half-day faculty development course is offered annually to the community geriatricians in the ICM Geriatric Medicine Program.
Past programs have included:
- Ethical Principles in Geriatrics
- Teaching Oral Presentation Skills
- Motivational Interviewing for the Geriatrics Patient
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Contact
Amy Ehrlich, MD
aehrlich@montefiore.org
- Nervous System and Human Behavior Course
A 12-week second-year course which includes geriatrics content focusing on cognition.
The Learning and Memory module, a 12-week second-year course, focuses on cognition with considerable content related to geriatric neurology and aging. The module includes sessions covering:
- movement disorders
- aging and dementia
- Alzheimer’s disease
- vascular diseases of the central nervous system
- higher nervous system function
- attention
- memory and amnesia
- clinical neurology
Contact
Joe Verghese, M.B., B.S.
joe.verghese@einstein.yu.edu
- Clinical Examination Geriatrics Assessment Workshop
A half-day geriatrics assessment workshop in the second year, emphasizing physical and cognitive function. more info