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    Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
  • Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
    Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
  • Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
    Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
  • Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
    Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
  • Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students
    Practice of Medicine and LinkAges for medical students

Medical Students

Community Based Learning Curriculum

LinkAges is a new program at Upstate Medical University's College of Medicine intended to improve geriatric care by advancing student-patient relationships.

GERIATRIC PROGRAM FUND

A gift to the GERIATRIC PROGRAM FUND at the Upstate Medical University Foundation will help support this valuable program, which is dependent on grant funding.

Please give today.

LinkAges brings together senior citizens and first-, second- and third-year medical students, giving students hands on, person-to-person experience in geriatric care years earlier than they previously received.

First-year Students: Practice of Medicine

First-year students begin their geriatric experience by interacting with healthy older adults at a variety of senior center sites in the community. They take health histories, give flu shots and become more familiar with issues regarding an aging but generally healthy population.

Second-year Students

Second-year students visit patients who live at home and are mobile but may be more frail than their peers who are out enjoying what senior centers have to offer.

Third-year Students: LinkAGES

The settings for third-year students are a senior housing facility and hospital or clinic based learning environment, where they study and experience firsthand various geriatric syndromes and conditions which do not fall within the purview of traditional medical education.

Such topics include:
  • Malnutrition and Dehydration
  • Medications and Polypharmacy
  • Falls and Gait Instability
  • Additional Topics
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