INTMD 7035

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Course Details

Course
INTMD 7035 - Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Description
"What our country needs now is more geriatricians. Geriatricians specialize in the care of older adults, whether working as consultants or as primary care physicians. Their role in primary care is increasingly important because our current primary care system is ill-equipped, and in some cases, unwilling, to provide care for older adults - those with multiple chronic illnesses, or those with dementia or other aging-related syndromes ..."
- Michael D. Cantor, MD, JD; NEJM Catalyst, 2017

This course is designed to provide medical students with the competencies they need to better provide care for older adults, regardless of whether they will enter primary or specialty care, and regardless of whether they one day pursue training in geriatrics. The course is a unique hybrid to equip students with knowledge and skills in both gerontology (the study of aging) and geriatric medicine. The elective's schedule is split 50:50 to accommodate the didactic and clinical components. The didactic curriculum is entirely online.

Students will train with a cadre of superb geriatrician clinician-educators in a variety of clinical settings, gain clinical experiences include training in conducting virtual telehealth video visits, receive training in leading goals of care conversations, learn about the 4 M's (what matters most, mentation, medications, and mobility) critical to the Age-Friendly Health Systems, work closely with a faculty member from the Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program to build foundational knowledge in aging theory, demographics, social determinants of health, age-friendly health systems, and vulnerable aging populations and qualify for the 15 credit hour University of Utah Graduate Certificate in Gerontology upon completion of the elective. This appears on your University transcript.

This is a 4-week course. We will accept up to 2 students per block.
Department
Internal Medicine
Credit Range
2 - 12
Permission Required
Yes
School Years
MSIV
Course Classifications
CLINICELECTIVE
Coordinator(s)
BEN,RAECHELLE DC | raechelle.ben@hsc.utah.edu
Directors(s)
Possible Grade(s)
Fail (F)Incomplete (I)Pass (P)
Prerequisites
INTMD 7200: Internal Medicine Clerkship
Add Policy

Director permission required prior to registration.

Drop Policy
Course may be dropped from schedule 30 days before it starts.

Academic Years

  Title Year Tags #Sec
INTMD 7035 - Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 2025/2026 ELECTIVECLINIC
INTMD 7035 - Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 2024/2025 ELECTIVECLINIC 8
INTMD 7035 - Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 2023/2024 ELECTIVECLINIC 12
INTMD 7035 - Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 2022/2023 ELECTIVECLINIC 14
INTMD 7035 - Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 2021/2022 ELECTIVECLINIC 8
INTMD 7035 - Problems in Geriatric Medicine 2020/2021 ELECTIVECLINIC
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