Use of a geriatric home visit experience to teach medical students the functional status assessment

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-246

  Tung, Ericka E ^a   Thomas, Matthew R ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional status; Geriatric assessment; Medical students

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT MOBILITY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 58649120794     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0853-0     Document Type: Article

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