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Geriatrics Interest Group
Welcome:
Welcome to the UCSF Geriatrics Interest Group (also known as the GIG)!
This student interest group was established in 2005 to foster interest and enthusiasm in the care of older adults and the field of geriatric medicine.
Goals
To provide a link between students and faculty advisors who can help
with:
- career advice
- how and why to become a geriatrician
- alternatives to geriatrics which involve caring for the elderly
- palliative care
- pre-clinical activities including conferences and shadowing
- research and project opportunities
- clinical rotations
To supplement the required curriculum with didactic and experiential
learning opportunities in geriatrics
To provide online links to resources helpful to students studying and caring for older adults
Activities and Events
- Gig - a - Bytes: monthly noon conferences specially designed for students (click on link for calendar)
- Geriatrics Grand Rounds 1 st Wednesday of each
month, 8 a.m.
- American Geriatrics Society Student Membership the GIG has applied for membership. AGS offers clinical and research opportunities, educational links, and funding to travel to the annual meeting. Contact the student coordinators for informations.
Pre-clinical and opportunities
Research and project opportunities
Clinical Rotations
- Geriatrics electives - contact Bree Johnston Bree.Johnston@ucsf.edu for information
- Palliative care electives - 170.21 Care of Dying Patients; 170.27 Supportive Care for Terminally Ill Patients
- Design your own! Geriatric consults, home care, nursing home, rehab medicine, dementia care, geriatric psychiatry, geriatric hospitalist
Community service (in progress)
- Pill box program
- Community senior partner program pairing students with an older patient
- Students teaching seniors lectures on medical topics by students to senior groups
- Student-run vaccination clinics
Frequently asked questions:
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What is geriatrics?
It's the field of medicine dedicated to the care of older adults. While the government defines old age as beginning at 65, most geriatricians spend the bulk of their time caring for patients in their 80s, 90s, and 100s.
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Can I join the GIG even if I don't want to become a geriatrician?
By all means. All we ask is that you want to learn how to better understand and care for older adults. Given current demographic trends, physicians in a wide range of specialties will spend much of their time caring for older patients. These include: internists, family physicians, orthopedists, ophthalmologist, dermatologists, general surgeons, EM docs, neurologists, hospitalists, psychiatrists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, palliative medicine specialists, physical medicine and rehabilitation docs, and urologists.
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What do geriatricians do?
Geriatricians work as primary care providers, hospitalists, researchers, academics, policy makers, and public health professionals. They work in hospitals, universities, community clinics, think tanks, home care programs, nursing homes, public health departments, hospices, and comprehensive adult day programs.
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How do I become a geriatrician?
Geriatricians first train in internal medicine or family practice then do a 1 (clinical only) to 3 (clinical + research) year fellowship to certify in geriatrics.
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Can I join the GIG if I'm a student in the school of nursing/pharmacy/dentistry?
Yes! Although founded by students in the medical school, the group's leadership positions and activities are open to students in all of UCSF's professional training programs. Just as geriatric medicine emphasizes the importance of inter- and multi-disciplinary care of patients, at the GIG , we're all for inter- and multi-disciplinary learning.
GIG Student Coordinators:
- President Lindsey Yourman, SOM
- Immediate Past President Lauren Carpenter, SOM
- Immediate Past Vice Presidents: Renita Vinluan-Fan, SON, and Irine
Vodkin, SOM
Faculty Advisor
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