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Geriatrics Curriculum Initiative

Enhancing Gerontology/Geriatric Medicine In Undergraduate Medical Education by integrating Core Competencies for Care of Older Patients as a longitudinal thread throughout the medical student curriculum using a set of geriatric cases: As the patients in each case age, basic and clinical studies will become highlighted within our established courses and clerkships.

Virtual Patient CD's

With today's health care advances, the geriatric patient can now live many years. However, as our population ages with the associated demands on the health care system, medical educators are challenged to add geriatrics into already dense medical school and residency curriculum. To meet this challenge, we have created a series of geriatric virtual patient teaching resources based on five geriatric patients, each on a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM allows a teacher to access, via disease topics or specialty/discipline links, resources to illustrate key concepts associated with various basic science disciplines and clinical specialties. Each CD is built upon a real patient, to ensure a realistic portrayal and includes a combination of:

Video clips (1-3 min in length) of the geriatric patient who ages over a 20-30 year span depicting the patient's interactions with physicians, nurses, PT's, OT's, social workers, psychologists, and family members.

Radiographic images associated with the patient's disease including x-rays, swallow studies, bone density scans, and carotid Doppler studies.

Assessment results using common geriatric tools (e.g., functional assessment).

Family pedigrees to explore the potential genetic etiology for the patient's disease(s).

OT/PT support including incontinence clinic, home assessment and rehabilitation.

Geriatric patients are a wonderful resource for illustrating key basic science and clinical concepts. By incorporating these resources into your teaching – we hope to achieve our ultimate goal: to provide needed exposure to issues commonly encountered with aging patients not only acutely, but life long. We hope that these easily accessible resources will enable you to use your creativity as a teacher to make our "virtual patients" come alive, thereby improving the care for geriatric patients.

Meet Our Geriatric Virtual Patients

	Mr. Karl Andrews, Chief Diagnosis: Atherosclerosis/Diabetes (pdf)
	Mrs. Esther DuBois, Chief Diagnosis: Breast Cancer/Arthritis (pdf)
	Mr. Clarence Malone, Chief Diagnosis: Dementia/Depression (pdf)
	Mrs. Mitsuko Tang, Chief Diagnosis: Osteoporosis/Incontinence (pdf)
	Mr. & Mrs. Fred & Eleanor Clifford: Aging-Longevity, Hearing and Vision, Infection-Bacterial and Viral, Injury-Motor Vehicle, Oral Health, Prostatitis, Sexuality, Skin Cancer (pdf)

How to Order CDs

Are you interested in knowing what topics are covered on each of the CD-ROMs? View a document (PDF) that shows a listing of each CD and the specific topic areas for each.

Order your Objective Structured Video Examiniation Toolkit (OSVEs) [Read More]

Order your Virtual Patient CDs

Advisory Council

Joan M. Bedinghaus, MD, Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine and Director M1-2 Integrated Clinical Continuum, Chair, Communications Curriculum Working Group.

Alan S. Bloom, PhD, Professor and M2 Course Director Pharmacology an d Toxicology, Liaison to M2 Course Directors

Alan K. David, MD, Professor, Chair, Family and Community Medicine and Director of Predoctoral Education in Family Medicine, Liaison to MCW Executive Committee (Department Chairs)

Kari Klatt, RN, MSW, Director, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital's Senior Health Program

Joseph B. Layde, MD, JD, Assistant Professor and Director Medical Student Education in Psychiatry

James L. Sebastian, MD, Professor and Director of Medical Student Education in Medicine, Liaison to M3 Clerkship Directors

Urias A. Almagro, MD, Associate Professor Pathology

Mary E. Cohan, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine