Educational Outcomes of the Geriatrics Clerkship for 4th year Medical Students

Sponsorship Type: Non-Funded
Research Type: Education
Impact: Local

The Primary Care Geriatrics clerkship is a four-week, required fourth-year clerkship designed to provide the medical student with an in-depth and qualitative exposure to the intricacies, subtleties, barriers, and obstacles to high-quality primary medical care for older adults in settings throughout the community. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and continually improve educational instruction in geriatrics at the FSU College of Medicine.

For more information, email Mridul Mazumder, M.D. at .

View the poster entitled Do Fourth-Year (M4) Medical Students Recognize Potentially Dangerous Medications for Older Adults? [pdf] that Jared Davis (MS3) and John Agens (previous PI) presented at the 2015 American Geriatrics Society annual meeting.

Mridul Mazumder MD

Dr. Mridul Mazumder