Introducing home visits and interdisciplinary learning to an existing geriatrics practicum for medical students

Summer, Anne M.; Donahue, Jill; Kaplan, Karen Orloff

doi:10.1097/00001888-199905000-00077

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“…Zum anderen wurden vielf ä ltige Lehrkonzepte entwickelt, die Kontakte zwischen Studierenden und Senioren f ö rdern, wie Wahl-bzw. Pfl ichtveranstaltungen in der ambulanten und station ä ren Betreuung von geriatrischen Patienten [8] , Hausbesuche bei Senioren [9] und Unterrichtsveranstaltungen in Seniorenwohnheimen [10,11] . W ä hrend sich letztere eher als ung ü nstig herausstellten, erwiesen sich longitudinal ausgerichtete Lehrkonzepte, bei denen Studierende f ü r die Gesamtdauer ihres Medizinstudiums jeweils einen gesunden Ä lteren begleiten, als besonders g ü nstig (sog.…”

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Welche Vorstellungen haben Studierende der Medizin über das Leben von Senioren in Deutschland?

Weltermann¹,

Романова²,

Gesenhues³

2008

Z Allg Med

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& Background: With the aging of Western societies there is an increasing necessity to teach geriatrics to medical students. To better understand what students know about the elderly, we performed a questionnaire survey addressing three important aspects of seniors ' life in current Germany, based on demographic data. Methods: At the beginning of a geriatrics lecture for third-year medical students, each student received a questionnaire. Using an ordinal scale (1 -5 -25 -50 -75 % ), participants were asked to estimate the percentage of elderly in a nursing home (correct: 5 % ), percentage of elderly women living alone at home (correct: 75 % ), percentage of seniors with weekly contact to their children (correct: 75 % ). Biographic data were obtained: age, gender, living grandparents or greatgrandparents, personally knowing at least one elderly person. SPSS 14.0 was used for analysis (p < 0.05). Results: Participation rate was 50 % (55 of 110). Students ' average age was 28 years, 68 % were female. Eighty percent knew a person above age 80 and 73 % had at least one living grandparent. No participant had three correct estimates; 13 % had two and 35 % one correct answer. 42 % correctly knew the percentage elderly in a nursing home. Yet, only 13 % realized that the majority of women above eighty lives at home independently. Also, contact between generations was severely underestimated: only 6 % knew the correct answer. None of the biographic variables had any signifi cant infl uence. Conclusion:Students ' estimates about the elderly differed markedly from actual living conditions of senior citizens in a modern society. It seems prudent to include data about seniors ' everyday life when teaching geriatrics to medical students.

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