Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
In 2006 UCSF was selected by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation as one of ten schools to receive a 2-million dollar, 4-year grant to train medical students, residents and practicing physicians in geriatrics.
The program focuses on two critical issues in geriatrics:
1) Transitions in Care
2) Care of Hospitalized Elders
Primary activites include: Medical Student Core:
- Activity 1: Every student will have a transitional care experience with an elder with an accompanying curriculum during their third year medicine rotation.
- Activity 2: Every student will participate in a Geriatrics mini-CPX, CPX or both during their third year.
- Activity 3: Every student will have a mentored home visit experience with an elder in their third year Family and Community Medicine with a companion geriatrics curriculum.
- Activity 4: The Student Geriatrics Interest Group will be revitalized.
Resident Core:
- Activity 1: Every medicine resident will have a transitional care experience with older patients during their first year in addition to the geriatrics training that they already receive.
- Resident Core Activity 2: We will adapt our existing geriatrics curriculum for Urologists to reach Ophthalmologists in Year 1 of the grant, Anesthesiologists in Year 2, Orthopedists in Year 3, and Emergency Medicine physicians in Year 4.
- Resident Core Activity 3: We will expand the Family Practice Residency Training to include a longitudinal nursing home experience over the three years of the residency.
Hospitalist Core
- Activity 1: We will recruit a Geriatrician to run an ACE Unit, provide house staff teaching, and faculty development at SF General Hospital;
- Activity 2: We will recruit a Geriatrician-Hospitalist for UCSF Medical Center;
- Activity 3: We will recruit one Hospitalist each year to be a Reynolds Hospitalist Scholar;
- Activity 4: We will select and invite a Reynolds Visiting Professor annually; <
- Activity 5: We will implement the Reynolds Hospitalist Training of Trainers Program.
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