Geriatrics (MD1066) ECTS

DESCRIPTION

Following successful completion of the module, students will be able to understand and seek multimorbidity in elderly patients, understand and trace the most common pathologies in elderly patients, understand that elderly persons’ health beyond pathology also relies on multiple social, psychological, emotional, environmental and financial parameters, perform a comprehensive geriatric assessment of an elderly person, draw an detailed pharmaceutic history from an elderly person and seek potentially inappropriate medications for the specific patient based on Beers criteria.